Description
In Dovecot before 2.2.36.3 and 2.3.x before 2.3.5.1, a local attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the indexer-worker process, which can be used to elevate to root. This occurs because of missing checks in the fts and pop3-uidl components.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://dovecot.org/security.html ↗
- https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-March/000403.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/28/1 ↗
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/59 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4418 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00038.html ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3928-1/ ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107672 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00060.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00067.html ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-19 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4XLI55NGRDTGMVOPYFCPPFNPA5VKYSSY/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QHFZ5OWRIZGIWZJ5PTNVWWZNLLNH4XYS/ ↗