Security Information / 2014 / Security Information -- DSA-2954-1 dovecot

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2954-1 dovecot -- security update

Date Reported:

09 Jun 2014

Affected Packages:

dovecot

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 747549.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3430.

More information:

It was discovered that the Dovecot email server is vulnerable to a denial of service attack against imap/pop3-login processes due to incorrect handling of the closure of inactive SSL/TLS connections.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.2.13~rc1-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.2.13~rc1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages.