Moderate: dovecot security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: dovecot security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

Security Fix(es):

• dovecot: Improper certificate validation (CVE-2019-3814)
  
• dovecot: Buffer overflow in indexer-worker process results in privilege escalation (CVE-2019-7524)
  

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1570283 - Dovecot should use portrelease to avoid port conflicts with NFSv4 mounts
• BZ - 1673415 - CVE-2019-3814 dovecot: Improper certificate validation
• BZ - 1696152 - CVE-2019-7524 dovecot: Buffer overflow in indexer-worker process results in privilege escalation

CVEs

• CVE-2019-3814
• CVE-2019-7524

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index