Issued at: 2024-09-30
Updated at: 2024-09-30
Synopsis
Moderate: dovecot security update
Description
Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux and other UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server, and supports e-mail in either the maildir or mbox format. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are provided as subpackages.
Security Fix(es):
* dovecot: using a large number of address headers may trigger a denial of service (CVE-2024-23184)
* dovecot: very large headers can cause resource exhaustion when parsing message (CVE-2024-23185)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.