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Cyrus IMAP < 3.0.16, 3.2.x < 3.2.8, 3.4.x < 3.4.2 DoS Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Denial of Service

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Cyrus IMAP is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

Certain user inputs are used as hash table keys during processing. A poorly chosen string hashing algorithm meant that the user could control which bucket their data was stored in, allowing a malicious user to direct many inputs to a single bucket. Each subsequent insertion to the same bucket requires a strcmp of every other entry in it. At tens of thousands of entries, each new insertion could keep the CPU busy in a strcmp loop for minutes.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Cyrus IMAP prior to version 3.0.16, version 3.2.x through 3.2.7 and 3.4.x through 3.4.1.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Update to version 3.0.16, 3.2.8, 3.4.2 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)