CVE-2017-14461

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103201

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-03-02

Updated: 2022-04-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Severity: High