Bug 2526664 - CVE-2026-27852 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of service via crafted email headers [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-27852 dovecot: Dovecot: Denial of service via crafted email headers ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dovecot
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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high
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Assignee: Michal Hlavinka
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["f79d6a33-1d20-43ab-bc8a-9...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-27852
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Reported: 2026-09-01 07:23 UTC by Vladimir Vasilev
Modified: 2026-09-01 07:23 UTC (History)
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-09-01 07:23:47 UTC
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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.


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