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Dovecot "imap/pop3-login" Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA18870
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Release Date:
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2006-02-15
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Last Update:
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2006-02-17
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Popularity:
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8,269 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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Description:
A vulnerability have been reported in Dovecot, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a double free error in pop3-login and imap-login when processing certain requests and can be exploited to crash the service.
Successful exploitation requires that "login_process_per_connection = no" has been set in the configuration file.
The vulnerability has been reported in the 1.x beta branch prior to version 1.0 beta3.
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