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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-10958: Moderate: dovecot security update (ALSA-2020-4763)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-10958: Moderate: dovecot security update (ALSA-2020-4763)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/18/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

In Dovecot before 2.3.10.1, a crafted SMTP/LMTP message triggers an unauthenticated use-after-free bug in submission-login, submission, or lmtp, and can lead to a crash under circumstances involving many newlines after a command.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-dovecot
  • alma-upgrade-dovecot-devel

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