Issued at: 2026-07-28
Updated at: 2026-07-28
Synopsis
Important: 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: Dovecot: Denial of Service via excessive IMAP bracing (CVE-2026-42006)
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.
Affected products
Rocky Linux 8 aarch64
Rocky Linux 8 x86_64
Fixes
2476476
CVEs
CVE-2026-42006
Affected packages
Rocky Linux 8 aarch64 - AppStream
dovecot-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.src.rpm
dovecot-debuginfo-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-mysql-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - PowerTools
dovecot-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.i686.rpm
dovecot-debuginfo-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.i686.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.i686.rpm
dovecot-devel-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.i686.rpm
dovecot-devel-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - AppStream
dovecot-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.src.rpm
dovecot-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-debuginfo-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-mysql-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
Rocky Linux 8 aarch64 - PowerTools
dovecot-devel-1:2.3.16-8.el8_10.aarch64.rpm