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Medium ALSA-2021:1887 2 CVEs

Moderate: dovecot security and bug fix update

Published May 18, 2021 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux and other UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server, and supports e-mail in either the maildir or mbox format. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are provided as subpackages.

Security Fix(es):

* dovecot: IMAP hibernation function allows mail access (CVE-2020-24386)

* dovecot: Denial of service via mail MIME parsing (CVE-2020-25275)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 dovecot 1:2.3.8-9.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 dovecot-devel 1:2.3.8-9.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 dovecot-mysql 1:2.3.8-9.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 dovecot-pgsql 1:2.3.8-9.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 dovecot-pigeonhole 1:2.3.8-9.el8

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-24386
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-25275