oss-security - Re: CVE request: Dovecot DoS in 2.x (fixed in 2.1.11)

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Message-ID: <20121204181229.218523tdfdnfphbx@imap.suse.de>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:12:29 +0100
From: Matthias Weckbecker <mweckbecker@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
	Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
Cc: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: Dovecot DoS in 2.x (fixed in
 2.1.11)

Hi Kurt, Vincent, vendors, ...

Quoting Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>:
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> On 12/03/2012 10:33 AM, Vincent Danen wrote:
>> Could a CVE be assigned for the following please?
>>
>> Dovecot 2.1.11 was released and includes a fix for a crash
>> condition when the IMAP server was issued a SEARCH command with
>> multiple KEYWORD parameters.  An authenticated remote user could
>> use this flaw to crash Dovecot.
>>
[...]
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Please use CVE-2012-5620 for this issue.
>

We were discussing this issue too at [1] and think that it does only
affect the current connection, no subsequent (i.e. new) connections
are affected.

What's your opinion wrt this?

[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=792642

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> Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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Thanks,
Matthias

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