Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package dovecot (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-DOVECOT-460362
published28 Aug 2019
disclosed29 Aug 2019

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Introduced: 28 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-11500 (opens in a new tab) CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dovecot package and not the dovecot package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In Dovecot before 2.2.36.4 and 2.3.x before 2.3.7.2 (and Pigeonhole before 0.5.7.2), protocol processing can fail for quoted strings. This occurs because '\0' characters are mishandled, and can lead to out-of-bounds writes and remote code execution.