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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-19722: dovecot NULL Pointer Dereference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-19722: dovecot NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/13/2019
Created
01/02/2020
Added
01/02/2020
Modified
01/02/2020

Description

In Dovecot before 2.3.9.2, an attacker can crash a push-notification driver with a crafted email when push notifications are used, because of a NULL Pointer Dereference. The email must use a group address as either the sender or the recipient.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-dovecot

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