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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-10691: Dovecot: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-10691: Dovecot: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/24/2019
Created
09/04/2019
Added
09/03/2019
Modified
09/03/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-mail-dovecot

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