MGASA-2019-0141

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    MGASA-2019-0141

    Published: 10 Apr 2019Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-7524

    Summary: Updated dovecot packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: CVE-2019-7524: Missing input buffer size validation leads into arbitrary buffer overflow when reading fts or pop3 uidl header from Dovecot index. Exploiting this requires direct write access to the index files.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0141.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24588, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-7524, https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-March/000402.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: dovecot

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/dovecot?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.2.36.3-1.mga6

    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