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High ALAS2-2019-1347 1 CVE

Important: dovecot security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Nov 4, 2019 · Updated Nov 7, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-11500: In Dovecot before 2.2.36.4 and 2.3.x before 2.3.7.2 (and Pigeonhole before 0.5.7.2), protocol processing can fail for quoted strings. This occurs because '\\0' characters are mishandled, and can lead to out-of-bounds writes and remote code execution. 99999: CVE-2019-11500 dovecot: improper NULL byte handling in IMAP and ManageSieve protocol parsers leads to out of bounds writes

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot 1:2.2.36-3.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot-debuginfo 1:2.2.36-3.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot-devel 1:2.2.36-3.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot-mysql 1:2.2.36-3.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot-pgsql 1:2.2.36-3.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot-pigeonhole 1:2.2.36-3.amzn2.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-11500.html