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Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-11500)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 29, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

IMAP and ManageSieve protocol parsers in Dovecot before 2.3.7.2 and Pigeonhole before 0.5.7.2 do not properly handle NUL byte when scanning data in quoted strings, leading to out of bounds heap memory writes.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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