National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0730

Overview

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Dovecot before 1.0beta3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or hang) via unspecified vectors involving (1) "potential hangs" in the APPEND command and "potential crashes" in (2) dovecot-auth and (3) imap/pop3-login. NOTE: vector 2 might be related to a double free vulnerability.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/16/2006)

This issue only affected Dovecot versions 1.0beta1 and 1.0beta2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 shipped with an earlier version of Dovecot and is therefore not vulnerable to this issue.

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-0549

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/0549

External Source: XF

Name: dovecot-append-dos(24709)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24709

External Source: BID

Name: 16672

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16672

External Source: MLIST

Name: [Dovecot] 20060208 1.0beta3 released

Hyperlink:http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-February/011367.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 18870

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18870