Description
A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service. In order to trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- low
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125CWE-125CWE-200
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- DOVECOT
- Published
- 3/2/2018
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
dovecot : dovecotdebian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linuxubuntu : ubuntuubuntu : ubuntuubuntu : ubuntu
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