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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.67431
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:104 (dovecot)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to dovecot
announced via advisory MDVSA-2010:104.

A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in dovecot:

Unspecified vulnerability in Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.11 allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption)
via long headers in an e-mail message (CVE-2010-0745).

This update provides dovecot 1.2.11 which is not vulnerable to this
issue and also holds many bugfixes as well.

Affected: 2010.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2010:104
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2010-March/000152.html

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-0745
ADV-2010-1107
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1107
ADV-2010-1226
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1226
MDVSA-2010:104
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:104
SUSE-SR:2010:011
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html
[dovecot-news] 20100308 v1.2.11 released
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2010-March/000152.html
[dovecot] 20100227 Possible CPU Denial-Of-Service attack to dovecot IMAP.
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-February/047190.html
[oss-security] 20100310 CVE Request -- Dovecot v1.2.11 -- DoS (excessive CPU use) by processing email with huge header
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/10/6
[oss-security] 20100401 Re: CVE Request -- Dovecot v1.2.11 -- DoS (excessive CPU use) by processing email with huge header
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127013715227551&w=2
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0745
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572268
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