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Debian: DSA-2258-2 Urgent: Postfix Buffer Overflow Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey June 2, 2011
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The Dovecot mail server exhibits a denial of service vulnerability caused by the improper handling of NUL characters during parsing.
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
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Summary

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: dovecot
CVE ID: CVE-2011-1929

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