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Dovecot 2.3.9 < 2.3.9.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

General

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

4 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

Dovecot is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.

Insight

Insight

The following vulnerabilities exist: - The IMAP and LMTP components in Dovecot mishandle snippet generation when many characters must be read to compute the snippet and a trailing > character exists. This causes a denial of service in which the recipient cannot read all of their messages. - lib-smtp in submission-login and lmtp in Dovecot mishandles truncated UTF-8 data in command parameters.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Dovecot versions 2.3.9 before 2.3.9.3.

Detection Method

Detection Method

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

Solution

Solution

Update to version 2.3.9.3 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)