CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5973

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2006-11-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Off-by-one buffer overflow in Dovecot 1.0test53 through 1.0.rc14, and possibly other versions, when index files are used and mmap_disable is set to "yes," allows remote authenticated IMAP or POP3 users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving the cache file.

Affected configurations

• timo sirainen dovecot 1.0 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.alpha1 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.alpha2 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.alpha3 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.alpha4 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.alpha5 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.beta1 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.beta2 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.beta3 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.beta4 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.beta5 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.beta6 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.beta7 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.beta8 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.beta9 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc1 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc2 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc3 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc4 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc5 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc6 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc7 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc8 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc9 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc10 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc11 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc12 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc13 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.rc14 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test53 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test54 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test55 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test56 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test57 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test58 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test59 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test60 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test61 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test62 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test63 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test64 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test65 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test66 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test67 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test68 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test69 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test70 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test71 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test72 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test73 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test74 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test75 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test76 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test77 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test78 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test79 • timo sirainen dovecot 1.0.test80

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