CVE-2017-14461 (GCVE-0-2017-14461)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-02 15:00
Modified
2024-09-16 23:00
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service. In order to trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
The Dovecot Project Dovecot Version: 2.2.33.2
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