CVE-2017-14461

Summary

CVECVE-2017-14461
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-02 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2022-04-19 19:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service. In order to trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200 | CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Dovecot Dovecot 2.2.33.2 All All All
Application Dovecot Dovecot 2.2.33.2 All All All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu 14.04 All All All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu 16.04 All All All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu 17.10 All All All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu 14.04 All All All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu 16.04 All All All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu 17.10 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-3587-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4130-1 dovecot DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
USN-3587-2: Dovecot vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[Dovecot-news] v2.2.34 released MLIST www.dovecot.org Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
TALOS-2017-0510 || Cisco Talos Intelligence Group - Comprehensive Threat Intelligence MISC talosintelligence.com Third Party Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] [DLA 1333-1] dovecot security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500152 Alpine Linux Security Update for dovecot
  • 503802 Alpine Linux Security Update for dovecot
  • 671129 EulerOS Security Update for dovecot (EulerOS-SA-2019-2138)
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