SB2020021231 - Infinite loop in dovecot (Alpine package)

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SB2020021231 - Infinite loop in dovecot (Alpine package)

Published: February 12, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2020021231
CSH Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7046)

CWE-ID: CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in lib-smtp in submission-login and lmtp and processing truncated UTF-8 data in command parameters. A remote non-authenticated attacker can send specially crafted command to the dovecot server and consume all available system resources and perform a denial of service attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References