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CVE-2017-14461

A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information di…

Impact

A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service. In order to trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
DovecotDovecot
Version 2.2.33.2
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 8.0, 9.0
UbuntuUbuntu
Versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10

Weakness classification

CWE-125CWE-200

References