MGASA-2019-0261

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    MGASA-2019-0261

    Published: 8 Sept 2019Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-11500

    Summary: Updated dovecot packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Updated dovecot packages fix security vulnerability: IMAP protocol parser does not properly handle NUL byte when scanning data in quoted strings, leading to out of bounds heap memory writes.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0261.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25371, https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2019-August/116875.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: dovecot

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.2.36.4-1.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
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High