vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-12100: Security patch for dovecot (ALAS-2020-1435)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Aug 12, 2020 | Oct 28, 2020 | Oct 28, 2020 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 12, 2020
Added
Oct 28, 2020
Modified
Oct 28, 2020
Description
In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, uncontrolled recursion in submission, lmtp, and lda allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted e-mail message with deeply nested MIME parts.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-dovecot
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