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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : dovecot23 (SUSE-SU-2021:0029-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 144757
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for dovecot23 fixes the following issues :Security issues fixed :
CVE-2020-12100: Fixed a resource exhaustion caused by deeply nested MIME parts (bsc#1174920).
CVE-2020-24386: Fixed an issue with IMAP hibernation that allowed users to access other users' emails (bsc#1180405).
CVE-2020-25275: Fixed a crash when the 10000th MIME part was message/rfc822 (bsc#1180406).
Non-security issues fixed :
Pigeonhole was updated to version 0.5.11.
Dovecot was updated to version 2.3.11.3.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2021-29=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2021-29=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2021-29=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2021-29=1
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174920
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180405
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180406
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12100/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24386/
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 144757
File Name: suse_SU-2021-0029-1.nasl
Version: 1.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 1/6/2021
Updated: 1/30/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.2
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.9
Temporal Score: 3.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-24386
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 6.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-squat, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-squat-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-pgsql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-backend-sqlite-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-lucene, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-lucene-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-solr, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot23-fts-solr-debuginfo
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2020