PT-2018-3407 · Dovecot+3 · Dovecot+3

Aleksandar Nikolic + 1 · Published 2018-02-28 · Updated 2025-01-30 · CVE-2017-14461

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Dovecot (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue is related to an out of bounds read that can be triggered by a specially crafted email message delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA. This can result in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server to exploit this issue.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Information Disclosure

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2038

BDU:2020-00779

CVE-2017-14461

DLA-1333-1

DSA-4130-1

MGASA-2018-0160

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10726-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14715-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1125-1

SUSE-SU-2018_1125-1

USN-3587-1

USN-3587-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Dovecot

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 71

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15130 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3587-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4130-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10726-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3587-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14461 · Vendor Advisory
• https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-00780 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14461 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15132 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14461 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14461 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/dovecot · Vendor Advisory