CVE-2019-10691

Summary

CVECVE-2019-10691
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-04-24 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:02:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Dovecot Dovecot All All All All
Application Dovecot Dovecot All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[Dovecot-news] CVE-2019-10691: JSON encoder in Dovecot 2.3 incorrecty assert-crashes when encountering invalid UTF-8 characters. MLIST dovecot.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
Dovecot: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201908-29) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: dovecot-2.3.6-3.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1312-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: dovecot-2.3.6-3.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - CVE-2019-10691: JSON encoder in Dovecot 2.3 incorrecty assert-crashes when encountering invalid UTF-8 characters. MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500164 Alpine Linux Security Update for dovecot
  • 503897 Alpine Linux Security Update for dovecot
  • 710132 Gentoo Linux Dovecot Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201908-29)
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