CVE-2006-5973 (GCVE-0-2006-5973)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-11-20 19:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:12
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2006-November/000024.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-387-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/23150 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23007 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/23172 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30433 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452081/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2006-November/000023.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/23213 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017288 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4614 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21183/info vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-802 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
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