Bug 2525590 (CVE-2026-40015) - CVE-2026-40015 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of Service via malformed IMAP commands in imap-hibernate service
Summary: CVE-2026-40015 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of Service via malformed IMAP command...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-40015
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: 2526674
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-08-28 11:24 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-01 07:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-28 11:24:58 UTC
An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.


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