Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Dovecot regression (USN-3258-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99303

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

USN-3258-1 intended to fix a vulnerability in Dovecot. Further investigation revealed that only Dovecot versions 2.2.26 and newer were affected by the vulnerability. Additionally, the change introduced a regression when Dovecot was configured to use the 'dict' authentication database. This update reverts the change. We apologize for the inconvenience.

It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled some usernames. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Dovecot to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3258-2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99303

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3258-2.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/12/2017

Updated: 10/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-2669

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-core, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-gssapi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-imapd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-ldap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-lmtpd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-lucene, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-managesieved, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-mysql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-pop3d, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-sieve, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-solr, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mail-stack-delivery, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2669

USN: 3258-2