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FreeBSD: VID-a64aa22f-61ec-11e9-85b9-a4badb296695 (CVE-2019-10691): dovecot -- json encoder crash

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Apr 18, 2019

Added

Apr 19, 2019

Modified

Jun 15, 2026

Description

The JSON encoder in Dovecot before 2.3.5.2 allows attackers to repeatedly crash the authentication service by attempting to authenticate with an invalid UTF-8 sequence as the username.

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-package-dovecotfreebsd-upgrade-package-dovecot2

References

CVE-2019-10691
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2019-10691
EUVD-EUVD-2019-2485
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-2485

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