oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- Dovecot v1.2.11 -- DoS (excessive CPU use) by processing email with huge header

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Message-ID: <1102805932.207101270137126497.JavaMail.root@zmail01.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:52:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Dovecot v1.2.11 -- DoS (excessive
 CPU use) by processing email with huge header

----- "Jan Lieskovsky" <jlieskov@...hat.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve, vendors,
> 
>    Dovecot upstream has released latest v1.2.11 version of Dovecot IMAP
>    server: [1]
> 
>    http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2010-March/000152.html
> 
>    addressing one denial of service issue (from upstream announcement):
>    "mbox users really should upgrade, because by sending a message with a
>    huge header you could basically cause a DoS (this problem exists only
>    with v1.2.x, not with v1.0 or v1.1)."
> 
>    References:
>      [2] http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-February/047190.html
>      [3] http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-February/047058.html
>      [4] http://secunia.com/advisories/38881/
> 

Please use CVE-2010-0745

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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