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SUSE: CVE-2019-7524: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2019-7524: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/05/2019
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/10/2019
Modified
10/22/2021

Description

In Dovecot before 2.2.36.3 and 2.3.x before 2.3.5.1, a local attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the indexer-worker process, which can be used to elevate to root. This occurs because of missing checks in the fts and pop3-uidl components.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-dovecot22
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot22-backend-mysql
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot22-backend-pgsql
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot22-backend-sqlite
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot22-devel
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot23
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot23-backend-mysql
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot23-backend-pgsql
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot23-backend-sqlite
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot23-devel
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot23-fts
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot23-fts-lucene
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot23-fts-solr
  • suse-upgrade-dovecot23-fts-squat

References

  • SUSE-SU-2019:0876-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:0900-1
  • USN-3928-1
  • CVE-2019-7524

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