vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-12674: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Aug 12, 2020

Added

Aug 22, 2024

Modified

Jun 18, 2026

Description

In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, sending a specially formatted RPA request will crash the auth service because a length of zero is mishandled.

alpine-linux-upgrade-dovecot

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