openSUSE Security Update : dovecot12 (openSUSE-SU-2011:0540-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 75472

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

dovecot crash when parsing mail headers that contain NUL characters (CVE-2011-1929)

Solution

Update the affected dovecot12 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694778

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-05/msg00056.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 75472

File Name: suse_11_3_dovecot12-110525.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-backend-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-backend-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-backend-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-fts-lucene, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-fts-solr, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1929