Executive Summary

Summary
Title Dovecot regression
Informations
Name USN-4110-4 First vendor Publication 2019-08-28
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-08-28
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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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM - Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

Summary:

USN-4110-1 introduced a regression in Dovecot.

Software Description: - dovecot: IMAP and POP3 email server

Details:

USN-4110-1 fixed a vulnerability in Dovecot. The update introduced a regression causing a wrong check. This update fixes the problem for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Nick Roessler and Rafi Rubin discovered that Dovecot incorrectly
handled certain data. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
dovecot-core 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.6+esm2

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
dovecot-core 1:2.0.19-0ubuntu2.8

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4110-4
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4110-1
CVE-2019-11500

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4110-4

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Date Informations
2019-08-29 05:19:00
  • First insertion