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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 disclosure and denial of service. In order to trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.

Published

2018-03-02T15:29:00.210

Last Modified

2024-11-21T03:12:50.433

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 5.9 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

4.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Secondary
    CWE-125
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-125
    CWE-200
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application dovecot dovecot 2.2.33.2 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 8.0 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 9.0 Yes
Operating System ubuntu ubuntu 14.04 Yes
Operating System ubuntu ubuntu 16.04 Yes
Operating System ubuntu ubuntu 17.10 Yes
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