Vigil@nce - Dovecot: denial of service via Invalid Authentication Message
July 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service.
Provenance: intranet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 02/05/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a fatal error via Invalid Authentication
Message of Dovecot, in order to trigger a denial of service.
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