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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1333-1 dovecot security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4130-1 dovecot security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-5964 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3587-1 Dovecot vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3587-2 Dovecot vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T23:00:46.355Z

Reserved: 2017-09-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-14461

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-03-02T15:29:00.210

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:12:50.433

Link: CVE-2017-14461

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-02-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-14461 - Bugzilla

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