CVE-2011-1929

Upstream information

CVE-2011-1929 at MITRE

Description

lib-mail/message-header-parser.c in Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 2.0.x before 2.0.13 does not properly handle '\0' characters in header names, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or mailbox corruption) via a crafted e-mail message.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 694778 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SR:2011:010, published Tue, 31 May 2011 08:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SU-2011:0608-1, published
openSUSE-SU-2011:0540-1

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 07:59:30 2013
CVE page last modified: Tue Apr 2 18:10:46 2024