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openSUSE Security Update : dovecot12 (openSUSE-SU-2010:0175-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 46178

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Huge mail headers could cause dovecot to consume excessive amounts of CPU (CVE-2010-0745)

dovecot was updated to version 1.2.11 which fixes the problem.

Solution

Update the affected dovecot12 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587356

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-04/msg00087.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 46178

File Name: suse_11_2_dovecot12-100426.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2010

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-backend-pgsql, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-backend-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-backend-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-fts-lucene

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0745