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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2517-1 dovecot -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

05 Jan 2021

Affected Packages:

dovecot

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-24386, CVE-2020-25275.

More information:

It was discovered that there were two issues in the Dovecot IMAP server:

• CVE-2020-24386

  An issue was discovered in Dovecot before 2.3.13. By using IMAP IDLE, an authenticated attacker can trigger unhibernation via attacker-controlled parameters, leading to access to other users' email messages (and path disclosure).

• CVE-2020-25275

  Dovecot before 2.3.13 has Improper Input Validation in lda, lmtp, and imap, leading to an application crash via a crafted email message with certain choices for ten thousand MIME parts.

For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages.

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