Bug 445844 – <net-mail/dovecot-2.1.12-r1: version bump

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2012-12-03 19:42:13 UTC]

From $URL :

Dovecot 2.1.11 was released and includes a fix for a crash condition
when the IMAP server was issued a SEARCH command with multiple KEYWORD
parameters.  An authenticated remote user could use this flaw to crash
Dovecot.

The upstream fix was to remove the keyword merging code.  This code
does not exist in Dovecot 1.x, but it does affect 2.x versions, at least
as far back as 2.0.9 (earliest version I checked).

References:

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2012-November/000235.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51455
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/0306792cc843
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883060

[Comment 1 Eray Aslan 2012-12-04 11:17:49 UTC]

@security: dovecot-2.1.11 is not a good release.  There are reports of having problems building sieve plugin.  Please consider stabilizing =net-mail/dovecot-2.1.12-r1. Thank you.

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2012-12-04 11:24:31 UTC]

Arches, please test and mark stable:
=net-mail/dovecot-2.1.12-r1
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2012-12-04 13:28:14 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo 2012-12-04 13:29:08 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo 2012-12-04 13:30:06 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo 2012-12-04 13:30:59 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 7 Eray Aslan 2012-12-04 21:21:49 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> An authenticated remote user could use this flaw to crash
> Dovecot.

"A user can crash his/her own IMAP session" says upstream - not the whole IMAP server.

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-December/069793.html

FYI

[Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-12-04 23:16:26 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 9 Anthony Basile 2012-12-05 02:23:13 UTC]

stable arm

[Comment 10 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2012-12-15 17:51:19 UTC]

alpha/ia64/s390/sh/sparc stable

[Comment 11 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) 2012-12-16 15:19:43 UTC]

Thanks, everyone.

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > An authenticated remote user could use this flaw to crash
> > Dovecot.
> 
> "A user can crash his/her own IMAP session" says upstream - not the whole
> IMAP server.
> 
> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-December/069793.html
> 
> FYI

Thanks, Eras. CVE-2012-5620 has been rejected [1] as this is not a vulnerability. 

Removing from security and closing since arches are finished. 

[1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/05/1