Bug 1276607 - dovecot: Buffer overflow when handling pop3_deleted_flag setting
Summary: dovecot: Buffer overflow when handling pop3_deleted_flag setting
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1276608
Blocks: 1276610
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Reported: 2015-10-30 09:50 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:45 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: dovecot 2.2.19
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-04-21 09:06:15 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-10-30 09:50:44 UTC 
An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability was fixed in dovecot 2.2.19 when handling pop3_deleted_flag setting. The vulnerability has been present since 2.2.10 version.

Upstream patch:

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/05e0700daea3
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-10-30 09:51:08 UTC 
Created dovecot tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1276608]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-11-15 00:24:01 UTC 
dovecot-2.2.19-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-11-15 02:20:12 UTC 
dovecot-2.2.19-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-11-15 02:48:39 UTC 
dovecot-2.2.19-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Stefan Cornelius 2016-04-21 09:04:41 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of dovecot as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
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