Vulnerability in Timo Sirainen Dovecot
CVE-2006-5973
Off-by-one buffer overflow in Dovecot 1.0test53 through 1.0.rc14, and possibly other versions, when index files are used and mmap_disable is set to "yes," allows remote authenticated IMAP or POP3 users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving the cache file.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.027 (85.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.027 · change: -0.000
Affected products
- Timo Sirainen Dovecot — versions 1.0, 1.0.alpha1, 1.0.alpha2
References
- dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2006-November/000024.html (mailing-list, Patch)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-387-1 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23150 (third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23007 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23172 (third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30433 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452081/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2006-November/000023.html (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/23213 (third-party-advisory)