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CVE-2019-7524 (GCVE-0-2019-7524)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-28 13:45 – Updated: 2024-08-04 20:54
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Summary
In Dovecot before 2.2.36.3 and 2.3.x before 2.3.5.1, a local attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the indexer-worker process, which can be used to elevate to root. This occurs because of missing checks in the fts and pop3-uidl components.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:L/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:C/UI:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://dovecot.org/security.html x_refsource_MISC
https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-March/… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/28/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/59 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4418 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3928-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107672 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-19 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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    "redhat_vex": {
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      "current_release_date": "2026-02-23T16:21:47+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2019-7524",
      "id": "CVE-2019-7524",
      "initial_release_date": "2019-03-28T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "124",
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      "product_status:known_not_affected": "6",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "dovecot: Buffer overflow in indexer-worker process results in privilege escalation",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2019/cve-2019-7524.json",
      "version": "3"
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      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-09-14T00:02:48Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2019-7524",
      "id": "CVE-2019-7524",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T04:16:00Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "58",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "21",
      "product_status:recommended": "183",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2019-7524",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2019-7524.json",
      "version": "23"
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