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High ALAS2-2020-1489 3 CVEs

Important: dovecot security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 15, 2020 · Updated Sep 16, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-12674: In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, sending a specially formatted RPA request will crash the auth service because a length of zero is mishandled. 1866317: CVE-2020-12674 dovecot: Crash due to assert in RPA implementation CVE-2020-12673: In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, sending a specially formatted NTLM request will crash the auth service because of an out-of-bounds read. 1866313: CVE-2020-12673 dovecot: Out of bound reads in dovecot NTLM implementation CVE-2020-12100: In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, uncontrolled recursion in submission, lmtp, and lda allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted e-mail message with deeply nested MIME parts. 1866309: CVE-2020-12100 dovecot: Resource exhaustion via deeply nested MIME parts

Fixed packages 6

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

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-12100.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-12673.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-12674.html