vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-11500: Security patch for dovecot (ALAS-2019-1347)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 29, 2019
Added
Apr 27, 2020
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

In Dovecot before 2.2.36.4 and 2.3.x before 2.3.7.2 (and Pigeonhole before 0.5.7.2), protocol processing can fail for quoted strings. This occurs because '\0' characters are mishandled, and can lead to out-of-bounds writes and remote code execution.

Solutions

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