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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.891333
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1333-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'dovecot' package(s) announced via the DLA-1333-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'dovecot' package(s) announced via the DLA-1333-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Dovecot email server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

CVE-2017-14461

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos and flxflndy discovered that Dovecot does not properly parse invalid email addresses, which may cause a crash or leak memory contents to an attacker.

CVE-2017-15130

It was discovered that TLS SNI config lookups may lead to excessive memory usage, causing imap-login/pop3-login VSZ limit to be reached and the process restarted, resulting in a denial of service. Only Dovecot configurations containing local_name { } or local { } configuration blocks are affected.

CVE-2017-15132

It was discovered that Dovecot contains a memory leak flaw in the login process on aborted SASL authentication.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: [link moved to references]

Affected Software/OS:
'dovecot' package(s) on Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-14461
BugTraq ID: 103201
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103201
Debian Security Information: DSA-4130 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-15130
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/205
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-15132
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/
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