openSUSE 10 Security Update : dovecot (dovecot-2306)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27201

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Off-by-one buffer overflow in Dovecot 1.0 versions, when index files are used and mmap_disable is set to 'yes,' allows remote authenticated IMAP or POP3 users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving the cache file. (CVE-2006-5973)

Solution

Update the affected dovecot package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27201

File Name: suse_dovecot-2306.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/26/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5973

Detections

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