National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0745

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via long headers in an e-mail message.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MLIST

Name: [dovecot-news] 20100308 v1.2.11 released

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2010-March/000152.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572268

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572268

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-1226

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1226

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-1107

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1107

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100310 CVE Request -- Dovecot v1.2.11 -- DoS (excessive CPU use) by processing email with huge header

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/10/6

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:104

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:104

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0745

Hyperlink:http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0745

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100401 Re: CVE Request -- Dovecot v1.2.11 -- DoS (excessive CPU use) by processing email with huge header

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127013715227551&w=2

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:011

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [dovecot] 20100227 Possible CPU Denial-Of-Service attack to dovecot IMAP.

Hyperlink:http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-February/047190.html