Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69959
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2252-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'dovecot' package(s) announced via the DSA-2252-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'dovecot' package(s) announced via the DSA-2252-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: It was discovered that the message header parser in the Dovecot mail server parsed NUL characters incorrectly, which could lead to denial of service through malformed mail headers. The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.15-7. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.13-1. We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages. Affected Software/OS: 'dovecot' package(s) on Debian 6. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1929 44683 http://secunia.com/advisories/44683 44712 http://secunia.com/advisories/44712 44756 http://secunia.com/advisories/44756 44771 http://secunia.com/advisories/44771 44827 http://secunia.com/advisories/44827 47930 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47930 72495 http://osvdb.org/72495 DSA-2252 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2252 FEDORA-2011-7258 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060815.html FEDORA-2011-7268 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060825.html FEDORA-2011-7612 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061384.html MDVSA-2011:101 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:101 RHSA-2011:1187 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1187.html USN-1143-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1143-1 [dovecot] 20110511 v1.2.17 released http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2011-May/059086.html [dovecot] 20110511 v2.0.13 released http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2011-May/059085.html [oss-security] 20110518 Dovecot releases http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/18/4 [oss-security] 20110519 Re: Dovecot releases http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/19/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/19/6 dovecot-header-name-dos(67589) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67589 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/3698dfe0f21c http://www.dovecot.org/doc/NEWS-1.2 http://www.dovecot.org/doc/NEWS-2.0 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706286 openSUSE-SU-2011:0540 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8581790
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