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Unscored USN-4674-1 2 CVEs

dovecot vulnerabilities

Published Jan 4, 2021 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled certain imap hibernation
commands. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to
access other users' email. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2020-24386)

Innokentii Sennovskiy discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled MIME
parsing. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Dovecot
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-25275)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS dovecot 1:2.2.22-1ubuntu2.14
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS dovecot 1:2.2.33.2-1ubuntu4.7
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS dovecot 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.3

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-24386
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-25275