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Alpine: dovecot: security update to 2.3.10.1-r1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404167

Description

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

 - 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)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-12673

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-12674

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 404167

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2020

Reference Information

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