CVE-2019-7524

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4418

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3928-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-19

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/59

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QHFZ5OWRIZGIWZJ5PTNVWWZNLLNH4XYS/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4XLI55NGRDTGMVOPYFCPPFNPA5VKYSSY/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00038.html

https://dovecot.org/security.html

https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-March/000403.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107672

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/28/1

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00067.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00060.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3