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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Dovecot vulnerabilities (USN-4674-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 144710

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4674-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled certain imap hibernation commands. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to access other users' email. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2020-24386)

 Innokentii Sennovskiy discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled MIME parsing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Dovecot to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-25275)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4674-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 144710

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4674-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/4/2021

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-24386

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-imapd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-auth-lua, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-mysql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-lmtpd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-sieve, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-ldap, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-managesieved, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-core, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-lucene, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-pop3d, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-sqlite, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mail-stack-delivery, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-submissiond, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-solr, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-gssapi

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/4/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-24386, CVE-2020-25275

USN: 4674-1