Bug 2525567 (CVE-2026-33263) - CVE-2026-33263 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of Service and potential message duplication via connection limit exhaustion
Summary: CVE-2026-33263 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of Service and potential message dupl...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-33263
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: 2526667
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-08-28 11:23 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-12 14:57 UTC (History)
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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 17:41:38 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:80825 0 None None None 2026-10-12 14:57:08 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-28 11:23:17 UTC
When mail_max_userip_connections is set (default 10) and reached, submission-login can crash with epoll() panic caused by file descriptor handling issues. If running in high-security mode (default for community releases), only the new submission connection gets terminated. If running in high-performance mode (default for Pro releases), all connections handled by the submission-login process will be terminated. The crashes can cause failure for user to send a message, or it can cause duplicate messages to be sent. If TLS is not used (in the backend server processing the submission), duplicate deliveries cannot happen, because the crash can only happen at AUTH stage. Limit the number of connections handled by single submission-login process. This has a performance impact though. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Comment 1 Jon Orris 2026-10-06 16:11:13 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 2 Jon Orris 2026-10-08 17:41:37 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 3 Jon Orris 2026-10-12 14:57:08 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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