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Red Hat: CVE-2019-11500: CVE-2019-11500 dovecot: improper NULL byte handling in IMAP and ManageSieve protocol parsers leads to out of bounds writes (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2019-11500: CVE-2019-11500 dovecot: improper NULL byte handling in IMAP and ManageSieve protocol parsers leads to out of bounds writes (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/29/2019
Created
09/24/2019
Added
09/23/2019
Modified
12/15/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-dovecot
  • redhat-upgrade-dovecot-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-dovecot-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-dovecot-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-dovecot-mysql
  • redhat-upgrade-dovecot-mysql-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-dovecot-pgsql
  • redhat-upgrade-dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-dovecot-pigeonhole
  • redhat-upgrade-dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo

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