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Debian DLA-1901-1 : dovecot security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 128393

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Nick Roessler and Rafi Rubin discovered that the IMAP and ManageSieve protocol parsers in the Dovecot email server do not properly validate input (both pre- and post-login). A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to trigger out of bounds heap memory writes, leading to information leaks or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00035.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/dovecot

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 128393

File Name: debian_DLA-1901.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/30/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-core, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-gssapi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-imapd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-ldap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-lmtpd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-lucene, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-managesieved, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-mysql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-pop3d, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-sieve, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-solr, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dovecot-sqlite, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11500