CVE-2019-11500
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2019-08-29 | |
| Impact: | Important | What is this? |
Description
In Dovecot before 2.2.36.4 and 2.3.x before 2.3.7.2 (and Pigeonhole before 0.5.7.2), protocol processing can fail for quoted strings. This occurs because '\0' characters are mishandled, and can lead to out-of-bounds writes and remote code execution.
See more information about CVE-2019-11500 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 9.8 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | None |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | High |
| Integrity Impact: | High |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (dovecot) | ELSA-2019-2885 | 2019-09-23 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (dovecot) | ELSA-2019-2836 | 2019-09-20 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (dovecot) | ELSA-2019-2822 | 2019-09-23 |
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