Alpine: multiple dovecot packages: security update to 2.3.10.1-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400385

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, uncontrolled recursion in submission, lmtp, and lda allows remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted e-mail message with deeply nested MIME
parts. (CVE-2020-12100)

- In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, sending a specially formatted NTLM request will crash the auth service because
of an out-of-bounds read. (CVE-2020-12673)

- In Dovecot before 2.3.11.3, sending a specially formatted RPA request will crash the auth service because
a length of zero is mishandled. (CVE-2020-12674)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400385

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12674

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12100, CVE-2020-12673, CVE-2020-12674

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