vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-7046: Infinite Loop

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 12, 2020
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

lib-smtp in submission-login and lmtp in Dovecot 2.3.9 before 2.3.9.3 mishandles truncated UTF-8 data in command parameters, as demonstrated by the unauthenticated triggering of a submission-login infinite loop.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-dovecot
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