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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for dovecot (ALAS-2014-386) (CVE-2014-3430)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for dovecot (ALAS-2014-386) (CVE-2014-3430)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/14/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/26/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Dovecot 1.1 before 2.2.13 and dovecot-ee before 2.1.7.7 and 2.2.x before 2.2.12.12 does not properly close old connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an incomplete SSL/TLS handshake for an IMAP/POP3 connection.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-dovecot
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-dovecot-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-dovecot-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-dovecot-mysql
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-dovecot-pgsql
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-dovecot-pigeonhole

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