Executive Summary

Summary
Title Dovecot vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3961-1 First vendor Publication 2019-04-30
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-04-30
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.10

Summary:

Dovecot could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description: - dovecot: IMAP and POP3 email server

Details:

It was discovered that the Dovecot Submission login service incorrectly handled certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Dovecot to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
dovecot-core 1:2.3.4.1-1ubuntu2.2
dovecot-submissiond 1:2.3.4.1-1ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 18.10:
dovecot-core 1:2.3.2.1-1ubuntu3.4
dovecot-submissiond 1:2.3.2.1-1ubuntu3.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3961-1
CVE-2019-11494, CVE-2019-11499

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dovecot/1:2.3.4.1-1ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dovecot/1:2.3.2.1-1ubuntu3.4

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3961-1

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Date Informations
2019-04-30 21:18:46
  • First insertion