CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-7524
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-03-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
In Dovecot before 2.2.36.3 and 2.3.x before 2.3.5.1, a local attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the indexer-worker process, which can be used to elevate to root. This occurs because of missing checks in the fts and pop3-uidl components.
Affected configurations
• dovecot dovecot (< 2.2.36.3)
• dovecot dovecot (>= 2.3.0 < 2.3.5.1)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
• opensuse leap 15.0
• opensuse leap 42.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00060.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00067.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/28/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107672 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-March/000403.html Vendor Advisory
- https://dovecot.org/security.html Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4XLI55NGRDTGMVOPYFCPPFNPA5VKYSSY/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QHFZ5OWRIZGIWZJ5PTNVWWZNLLNH4XYS/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/59 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-19 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3928-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4418 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00060.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00067.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/28/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107672 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-March/000403.html Vendor Advisory
- https://dovecot.org/security.html Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4XLI55NGRDTGMVOPYFCPPFNPA5VKYSSY/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QHFZ5OWRIZGIWZJ5PTNVWWZNLLNH4XYS/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/59 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-19 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3928-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4418 Third Party Advisory