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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2021-02-25 | |
| Rule Name: | Dovecot and Pigeonhole Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2019-11500) | |
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| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | 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. | |
| Impact: | An attacker can execute arbitrary code via a successful exploit in the context of the vulnerable software. | |
| Affected OS: | Windows, Linux, Others | |
| Reference: | http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00024.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00026.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/28/3 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2822 |
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| Solutions |
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| The vendor has released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit: https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2019-August/000418.html |