Detections
Analytics

Oracle Linux 8 : dovecot (ELSA-2020-4763)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142787

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-4763 advisory.

 - fix CVE-2020-12100 resource exhaustion via deeply nested MIME parts (#1866756)
 - fix CVE-2020-12673 out of bound reads in dovecot NTLM implementation (#1866761)
 - fix CVE-2020-12674 crash due to assert in RPA implementation (#1866768)
 - fix CVE-2020-10957 dovecot: malformed NOOP commands leads to DoS (#1840354)
 - fix CVE-2020-10958 dovecot: command followed by sufficient number of newlines leads to use-after-free (#1840357)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-4763.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142787

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-4763.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2020

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

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-2020-10967

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dovecot-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dovecot-mysql, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dovecot-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dovecot-pigeonhole, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dovecot

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/18/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10958, CVE-2020-10967