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ghsa-vg8f-j3m8-7g9v

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:08

Modified

2022-05-24 17:08

Details

The IMAP and LMTP components in Dovecot 2.3.9 before 2.3.9.3 mishandle snippet generation when many characters must be read to compute the snippet and a trailing > character exists. This causes a denial of service in which the recipient cannot read all of their messages.

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   affected: [],
   aliases: [
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   ],
   database_specific: {
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   id: "GHSA-vg8f-j3m8-7g9v",
   modified: "2022-05-24T17:08:50Z",
   published: "2022-05-24T17:08:50Z",
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cve-2020-7957

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-02-12 16:50

Modified

2024-08-04 09:48

Severity ?

3.1 (Low) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://dovecot.org/security	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/12/2	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2020-February/000430.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6XYT55WH372BJOXCJRKBDIFGBMPVOIDT/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NJXHOUT3FH2DJNMACSX4GHPP4MUV4UKA/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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