vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2019-10691)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 24, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

JSON encoder in Dovecot 2.3 incorrectly assert-crashes when encountering invalid UTF-8 characters. This can be used to crash dovecot in two ways. Attacker can repeatedly crash Dovecot authentication process by logging in using invalid UTF-8 sequence in username. This requires that auth policy is enabled. Crash can also occur if OX push notification driver is enabled and an email is delivered with invalid UTF-8 sequence in From or Subject header. In 2.2, malformed UTF-8 sequences are forwarded "as-is", and thus do not cause problems in Dovecot itself. Target systems should be checked for possible problems in dealing with such sequences.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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