Bug 2525577 (CVE-2026-73209) - CVE-2026-73209 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of Service via crafted compressed data
Summary: CVE-2026-73209 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of Service via crafted compressed data
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-73209
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2526692
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-08-28 11:23 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-01 07:29 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-28 11:23:50 UTC
An attacker that has valid credentials can send crafted compressed data that causes the affected process to exhaust its stack and crash. The affected process is terminated, which can cause degradation or denial of service for IMAP. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.


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