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Fedora 31 : 1:dovecot (2019-ea638fb605)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 129656

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2019-11500: IMAP protocol parser does not properly handle NUL byte when scanning data in quoted strings, leading to out of bounds heap memory writes

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected 1:dovecot package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-ea638fb605

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 129656

File Name: fedora_2019-ea638fb605.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2019

Updated: 4/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11500

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:1:dovecot, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11500