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CVE-2017-14461

Publication date 28 February 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.1 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dovecot 17.10 artful
Fixed 1:2.2.27-3ubuntu1.3
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:2.2.22-1ubuntu2.7
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.4

Notes

mdeslaur

affects 2.0 - 2.2.33, 2.3.0

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.1 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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