CVE-2019-10691 Affecting dovecot package, versions <1:2.3.4.1-4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-DOVECOT-1544630
  • published19 Apr 2019
  • disclosed24 Apr 2019

Introduced: 19 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-10691  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 dovecot to version 1:2.3.4.1-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dovecot package and not the dovecot package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

The JSON encoder in Dovecot before 2.3.5.2 allows attackers to repeatedly crash the authentication service by attempting to authenticate with an invalid UTF-8 sequence as the username.