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CVE-2020-7957

Publication date 12 February 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

The IMAP and LMTP components in Dovecot 2.3.9 before 2.3.9.3 mishandle snippet generation when many characters must be read to compute the snippet and a trailing > character exists. This causes a denial of service in which the recipient cannot read all of their messages.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dovecot 19.10 eoan
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes


mdeslaur

2.3.9 only introduced by 74063ed8219d055489d5233b0c02a59886d2078c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L