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Ubuntu: 4110-1 Critical: Dovecot Denial Of Service and Code Execution

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Calendar Grey August 28, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4110-1 highlights a vulnerability in Dovecot that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code or cause a system crash when processing specially crafted input.
Dovecot could be made to crash or execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted data.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service Ubuntu arbitrary code execution risk Dovecot

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04: dovecot-core 1:2.3.4.1-1ubuntu2.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: dovecot-core 1:2.2.33.2-1ubuntu4.4 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: dovecot-core 1:2.2.22-1ubuntu2.11 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4110-1

CVE-2019-11500

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August 28, 2019

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security advisory denial of service Ubuntu arbitrary code execution risk Dovecot

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dovecot/1:2.3.4.1-1ubuntu2.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dovecot/1:2.2.33.2-1ubuntu4.4 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dovecot/1:2.2.22-1ubuntu2.11

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