CVE-2006-5973 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5973
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Description: Off-by-one buffer overflow in Dovecot 1.0test53 through 1.0.rc14, and possibly other versions, when index files are used and mmap_disable is set to "yes," allows remote authenticated IMAP or POP3 users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving the cache file.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30433 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-387-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html ST 1017288 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23007 Secunia Advisory: SA23150 Secunia Advisory: SA23172 Secunia Advisory: SA23213 MLIST http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2006-November/000024.html http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2006-November/000023.html CONFIRM BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/452081/100/0/threaded BID 21183

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