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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14461: Out-of-bounds Read

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14461: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/28/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service. In order to trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-dovecot

References

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