Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3828-1 dovecot -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 10 Apr 2017
- Affected Packages:
- dovecot
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 860049.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-2669. - More information:
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It was discovered that the Dovecot email server is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. When the
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passdb and userdb are used for user authentication, the username sent by the IMAP/POP3 client is sent through var_expand() to perform %variable expansion. Sending specially crafted %variable fields could result in excessive memory usage causing the process to crash (and restart).For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u2.
We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages.