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Ubuntu: USN-3951-1 (CVE-2019-10691): Dovecot vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3951-1 (CVE-2019-10691): Dovecot vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/09/2019
Created
05/02/2019
Added
04/30/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-dovecot-core

References

  • USN-3951-1
  • CVE-2019-10691

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