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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : dovecot vulnerability (USN-1143-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55106

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that the message header parser in Dovecot did not properly handle '\0' characters in header names. This could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted email message by crashing the Dovecot daemon or corrupting mailboxes.

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Solution

Update the affected dovecot-common package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1143-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55106

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1143-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1929

BID: 47930

USN: 1143-1