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Alma Linux: CVE-2024-23184: Moderate: dovecot security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2024-23184: Moderate: dovecot security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/10/2024
Created
09/13/2024
Added
09/12/2024
Modified
09/26/2024

Description

Having a large number of address headers (From, To, Cc, Bcc, etc.) becomes excessively CPU intensive. With 100k header lines CPU usage is already 12 seconds, and in a production environment we observed 500k header lines taking 18 minutes to parse. Since this can be triggered by external actors sending emails to a victim, this is a security issue. An external attacker can send specially crafted messages that consume target system resources and cause outage. One can implement restrictions on address headers on MTA component preceding Dovecot. No publicly available exploits are known.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-dovecot
  • alma-upgrade-dovecot-devel
  • alma-upgrade-dovecot-mysql
  • alma-upgrade-dovecot-pgsql
  • alma-upgrade-dovecot-pigeonhole

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