CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-1929

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2011-05-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-05-24
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
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

lib-mail/message-header-parser.c in Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 2.0.x before 2.0.13 does not properly handle '\0' characters in header names, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or mailbox corruption) via a crafted e-mail message.

Affected configurations

• dovecot dovecot 1.2.0 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.1 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.2 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.3 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.4 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.5 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.6 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.7 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.8 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.9 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.10 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.11 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.12 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.13 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.14 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.15 • dovecot dovecot 1.2.16 • dovecot dovecot 2.0 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.0 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.1 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.2 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.3 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.4 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.5 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.6 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.7 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.8 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.9 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.10 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.11 • dovecot dovecot 2.0.12

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References