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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : dovecot23 (SUSE-SU-2021:0027-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 144763

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for dovecot23 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2020-12100: Fixed a resource exhaustion caused by deeply nested MIME parts (bsc#1174920).

CVE-2020-24386: Fixed an issue with IMAP hibernation that allowed users to access other users' emails (bsc#1180405).

CVE-2020-25275: Fixed a crash when the 10000th MIME part was message/rfc822 (bsc#1180406).

Non-security issues fixed :

Pigeonhole was updated to version 0.5.11.

Dovecot was updated to version 2.3.11.3.

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP1-2021-27=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174920

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180405

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180406

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12100/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24386/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25275/

http://www.nessus.org/u?04c03a16

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 144763

File Name: suse_SU-2021-0027-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2021

Updated: 1/30/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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: 6.1

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-pgsql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-sqlite-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-lucene, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-lucene-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-solr, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-solr-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-squat, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-squat-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12100, CVE-2020-24386, CVE-2020-25275