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Red Hat: CVE-2020-12674: CVE-2020-12674 dovecot: Crash due to assert in RPA implementation (Multiple Advisories)

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2020-12674: CVE-2020-12674 dovecot: Crash due to assert in RPA implementation (Multiple Advisories)
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2020-08-12T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, CWE-125, Red Hat, 2020, 12674, 12674 dovecot, redhat-upgrade-dovecot, redhat-upgrade-dovecot-debuginfo, redhat-upgrade-dovecot-debugsource, redhat-upgrade-dovecot-devel, redhat-upgrade-dovecot-mysql, redhat-upgrade-dovecot-mysql-debuginfo, redhat-upgrade-dovecot-pgsql, redhat-upgrade-dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo, redhat-upgrade-dovecot-pigeonhole, redhat-upgrade-dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo, Severity 5

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Aug 12, 2020

Added

Sep 4, 2020

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, sending a specially formatted RPA request will crash the auth service because a length of zero is mishandled.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-dovecotredhat-upgrade-dovecot-debuginforedhat-upgrade-dovecot-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-dovecot-develredhat-upgrade-dovecot-mysqlredhat-upgrade-dovecot-mysql-debuginforedhat-upgrade-dovecot-pgsqlredhat-upgrade-dovecot-pgsql-debuginforedhat-upgrade-dovecot-pigeonholeredhat-upgrade-dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo

References

CWE-125
EUVD-EUVD-2020-4970
NVD-CVE-2020-12674
REDHAT-RHSA-2020:3617
REDHAT-RHSA-2020:3713
REDHAT-RHSA-2020:3736
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-4970

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