National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0730
Original release date:02/16/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
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):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/16/2006)
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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
External Source: XF
Name: dovecot-append-dos(24709)
External Source: BID
Name: 16672
External Source: MLIST
Name: [Dovecot] 20060208 1.0beta3 released
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18870
Type: Advisory