Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-7524: Dovecot A local attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the indexer-worker process, which can be used to elevate to root
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(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
03/28/2019
12/18/2019
11/08/2019
12/04/2019
Description
In Dovecot before 2.2.36.3 and 2.3.x before 2.3.5.1, a local attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the indexer-worker process, which can be used to elevate to root. This occurs because of missing checks in the fts and pop3-uidl components.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-dovecot
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