Bug 1866317 (CVE-2020-12674)
Summary: | CVE-2020-12674 dovecot: Crash due to assert in RPA implementation | ||||||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas> | ||||
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |||||
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | high | ||||||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | anon.amish, bennie.joubert, janfrode, mhlavink, security-response-team | ||||
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security | ||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | dovecot 2.3.11 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | ||||
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A flaw was found in dovecot. An attacker can use the way dovecot handles RPA (Remote Passphrase Authentication) to crash the authentication process repeatedly preventing login. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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Last Closed: | 2020-09-03 13:17:49 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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Bug Depends On: | 1866764, 1866765, 1866766, 1866767, 1866768, 1868541, 1871842 | ||||||
Bug Blocks: | 1866310 | ||||||
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Description
Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
2020-08-05 11:01:12 UTC
Created attachment 1710595 [details]
Upstream patch
Acknowledgments: Name: the Dovecot project Mitigation: Upstream suggests that this flaw can be mitigated by disabling RPA (Remote Passphrase Authentication). RPA can be disabled by using the configuration parameter "auth_mechanisms". More details available at: https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/authentication_mechanisms/ External References: https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2020-August/000443.html Created dovecot tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1868541] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2020:3617 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3617 This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-12674 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2020:3713 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3713 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2020:3735 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3735 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2020:3736 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3736 |