Bug 2525583 (CVE-2026-42007)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-42007 dovecot: Dovecot: Arbitrary Code Execution via Sieve editheader use-after-free | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | rhel-process-autobot, watson-tool-maintainers |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in Dovecot. An authenticated attacker can use a Sieve script with the `editheader` extension to trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in the mail editing code. This can lead to memory corruption, potentially crashing the mail delivery process and allowing for arbitrary code execution in the context of that process.
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| Bug Depends On: | 2526683 | ||
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Description
OSIDB Bzimport
2026-08-28 11:24:15 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2026:76763 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:76763 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Via RHSA-2026:79371 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:79371 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2026:80825 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80825 |