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Debian DSA-2954-1: Moderate Dovecot Denial Of Service Advisory

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2014
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Debian DSA-3001-1 tackles a vulnerability in the OpenSSL library, which may lead to a denial of service due to improper handling of specific packet types.
It was discovered that the Dovecot email server is vulnerable to a denial of service attack against imap/pop3-login processes due to incorrect handling of the closure of inactive S...

Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.2.13~rc1-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.2.13~rc1-1.

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/



Package: dovecot
CVE ID: CVE-2014-3430

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