RHSA-2024:6973: Moderate: dovecot security update

First published: Tue Sep 24 2024(Updated: )

Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux and other UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server, and supports e-mail in either the maildir or mbox format. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are provided as subpackages. <br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> dovecot: using a large number of address headers may trigger a denial of service (CVE-2024-23184)</li> <li> dovecot: very large headers can cause resource exhaustion when parsing message (CVE-2024-23185)</li> For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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