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Bug 470906 (CVE-2013-2111) - <net-mail/dovecot-2.2.2 : "APPEND" Parameters Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2013-2111)
Summary: <net-mail/dovecot-2.2.2 : "APPEND" Parameters Processing Denial of Service Vu...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2013-2111
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://secunia.com/advisories/53492/
Whiteboard: ~3 [noglsa]
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-05-21 19:01 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2013-05-24 18:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-05-21 19:01:39 UTC
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Description
A vulnerability has been reported in Dovecot, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within IMAP functionality when processing the "APPEND" parameters and can be exploited to cause a hang.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.2.


Solution
Update to version 2.2.2.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2013-May/000255.html



@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please say explicitly if it is ready for the stabilization or not.