vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14461: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 2, 2018
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

A 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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-dovecot
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