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Medium RLSA-2024:6529 2 CVEs

Moderate: dovecot security update

Published Sep 17, 2024 · Updated Feb 4, 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: using a large number of address headers may trigger a denial of service (CVE-2024-23184)

* dovecot: very large headers can cause resource exhaustion when parsing message (CVE-2024-23185)

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 dovecot 1:2.3.16-11.el9_4.1

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2305909
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2305910