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

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- "Jan Lieskovsky" <jlieskov () redhat 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