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High ELSA-2026-76763 8 CVEs

Important: dovecot security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Oct 6, 2026 · Updated Oct 6, 2026

Summary

[1:2.3.16-15]
- fix CVE-2026-33605: ManageSieve login deadlock caused by lone CR
protocol violation (RHEL-251995)

[1:2.3.16-14]
- fix CVE-2026-42007: heap use-after-free in pigeonhole edit_mail_snapshot
after deleteheader operation (RHEL-251946)

[1:2.3.16-13]
- fix CVE-2026-40018: incorrect escaping of multi-byte strings in SQL commands (RHEL-252064)

[1:2.3.16-13]
- fix CVE-2026-42391: pre-auth CPU/memory amplification via
excessive ID command key/value pairs (RHEL-252056)

[1:2.3.16-12]
- fix CVE-2026-73208: OAuth2 scope check requires all configured scopes, add oauth2_audience setting (RHEL-251905)

[1:2.3.16-11]
- fix CVE-2026-27852: denial of service via memory exhaustion from
crafted message headers (RHEL-251573)

[1:2.3.16-10]
- fix CVE-2026-33263: submission-login panic at
mail_max_userip_connections limit (RHEL-251922)

[1:2.3.16-9]
- fix mailbox leak causing assert crash (RHEL-176273)

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 dovecot 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 dovecot-devel 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 dovecot-mysql 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 dovecot-pgsql 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 dovecot-pigeonhole 1:2.3.16-16.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 8