Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-10691: dovecot Mishandling invalid UTF-8 characters by JSON encoder leading to possible DoS attack
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
04/24/2019
07/03/2019
07/02/2019
12/04/2019
Description
The JSON encoder in Dovecot before 2.3.5.2 allows attackers to repeatedly crash the authentication service by attempting to authenticate with an invalid UTF-8 sequence as the username.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-dovecot
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