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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1901-1 dovecot -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

29 Aug 2019

Affected Packages:

dovecot

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-11500.

More information:

Nick Roessler and Rafi Rubin discovered that the IMAP and ManageSieve protocol parsers in the Dovecot email server do not properly validate input (both pre- and post-login). A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to trigger out of bounds heap memory writes, leading to information leaks or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages.

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