Bug 2525557 (CVE-2026-27852) - CVE-2026-27852 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of service via crafted email headers
Summary: CVE-2026-27852 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of service via crafted email headers
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-27852
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2526665 2526666 2526664
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-08-28 11:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-12 14:57 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:76763 0 None None None 2026-10-06 16:11:13 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:79371 0 None None None 2026-10-08 17:41:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:80825 0 None None None 2026-10-12 14:57:06 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-28 11:22:45 UTC
An attacker that can send mail to a user can craft a message whose headers contain a very large number of email addresses or MIME parameters, which causes excessive memory usage when the message is later parsed. The message is still delivered, but reading it over IMAP can exhaust the memory limit of the process and terminate it, causing denial of service for the affected user. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Comment 2 Jon Orris 2026-10-06 16:11:12 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

Comment 3 Jon Orris 2026-10-08 17:41:35 UTC
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

Comment 4 Jon Orris 2026-10-12 14:57:05 UTC
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


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