GSD-2016-8652

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
Details
The auth component in Dovecot before 2.2.27, when auth-policy is configured, allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by aborting authentication without setting a username.
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CVE-2016-8652
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