CLEANSTART-2024-FK57444

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    CLEANSTART-2024-FK57444

    Published: 31 Oct 2026Last Modified: 31 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-14461

    Summary: 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

    Details: Security vulnerability affects the dovecot package. 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.

    References: https://github.com/cleanstart-dev/cleanstart-security-advisories/tree/main/advisories/2024/CLEANSTART-2024-FK57444.json, https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-14461, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14461

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: dovecot

    Purl: pkg:apk/cleanstart/dovecot

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.3.1-r0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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