Vigil@nce - Dovecot: denial of service via MIME Parsing
March 2021 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerabilities-watch-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 04/01/2021.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a fatal error via MIME Parsing of Dovecot,
in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Dovecot-denial-of-service-via-MIME-Parsing-34233