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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2017-09-14 | |
| Rule Name: | PROTOCOL-IMAP Dovecot SASL Authentication Component Denial of Service Vulnerability -4 (CVE-2016-8652) | |
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| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | The auth component in Dovecot before 2.2.27, when auth-policy is configured, allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by aborting authentication without setting a username. | |
| Impact: | An attacker can launch a denial of service attack by exploiting the vulnerability successfully. | |
| Affected OS: | Mac OS, Solaris, Other Unix, FreeBSD, Linux | |
| Reference: | CVE-2016-8652 |
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| Solutions |
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| Upgrading to 2.2.27 and later version to resolve the problem. |