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Medium ALAS2-2020-1473 2 CVEs

Moderate: dovecot security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Aug 18, 2020 · Updated Aug 25, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-7524: In Dovecot before 2.2.36.3 and 2.3.x before 2.3.5.1, a local attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the indexer-worker process, which can be used to elevate to root. This occurs because of missing checks in the fts and pop3-uidl components. 1696152: CVE-2019-7524 dovecot: Buffer overflow in indexer-worker process results in privilege escalation CVE-2019-3814: It was discovered that Dovecot before versions 2.2.36.1 and 2.3.4.1 incorrectly handled client certificates. A remote attacker in possession of a valid certificate with an empty username field could possibly use this issue to impersonate other users. 1673415: CVE-2019-3814 dovecot: Improper certificate validation

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot 1:2.2.36-6.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot-debuginfo 1:2.2.36-6.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot-devel 1:2.2.36-6.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot-mysql 1:2.2.36-6.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot-pgsql 1:2.2.36-6.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 dovecot-pigeonhole 1:2.2.36-6.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-3814.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-7524.html