SB2020051966 - Fedora 31 update for dovecot
Published: May 19, 2020 Updated: April 25, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10957)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing NOOP command. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted NOOP command to submission, submission-login or lmtp service, trigger a NULL pointer dereference and perform a denial of service attack.
PoC command:
``NOOP EE"FY``
2) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10958)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing newline characters. A remote attacker can a specially crafted command to submission, submission-login or lmtp service and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10967)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input passed via email message. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted email with empty quoted localpart and crash the submission or lmtp service.
PoC:
Send mail with envelope sender or recipient as ``<""@example.org>``.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.