Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-6529-03

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: dovecot security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:6529-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6529
Issue date: 2024-09-10
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-23184
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Summary:

An update for dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description:

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.

Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

CVEs:

CVE-2024-23184

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2305909
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2305910