CVE-2020-25275

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-25275
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-01-04 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:20:00 UTC
DescriptionDovecot before 2.3.13 has Improper Input Validation in lda, lmtp, and imap, leading to an application crash via a crafted email message with certain choices for ten thousand MIME parts.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Dovecot Dovecot All All All All
Application Dovecot Dovecot All All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: dovecot-2.3.13-2.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4825-1 dovecot DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Dovecot: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202101-01) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
oss-security - CVE-2020-25275: Dovecot: MIME parsing crash CONFIRM www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: dovecot-2.3.13-2.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[Dovecot-news] CVE-2020-25275: MIME parsing crashes with particular messages CONFIRM dovecot.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
Full Disclosure: CVE-2020-24386: IMAP hibernation allows accessing other peoples mail FULLDISC seclists.org Third Party Advisory
Dovecot 2.3.11.3 Denial Of Service ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory
Dovecot | Security MISC dovecot.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159226 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for dovecot (ELSA-2021-1887)
  • 174719 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for dovecot23 (SUSE-SU-2021:0028-1)
  • 174720 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for dovecot23 (SUSE-SU-2021:0027-1)
  • 239290 Red Hat Update for dovecot (RHSA-2021:1887)
  • 377163 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for dovecot (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0115)
  • 500155 Alpine Linux Security Update for dovecot
  • 503805 Alpine Linux Security Update for dovecot
  • 690394 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for mail/dovecot (bd98066d-4ea4-11eb-b412-e86a64caca56)
  • 750429 OpenSUSE Security Update for dovecot23 (openSUSE-SU-2021:0072-1)
  • 750445 OpenSUSE Security Update for dovecot23 (openSUSE-SU-2021:0026-1)
  • 940267 AlmaLinux Security Update for dovecot (ALSA-2021:1887)
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