Important: dovecot security update

Synopsis

Important: dovecot security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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: Resource exhaustion via deeply nested MIME parts (CVE-2020-12100)
  
• dovecot: Out of bound reads in dovecot NTLM implementation (CVE-2020-12673)
  
• dovecot: Crash due to assert in RPA implementation (CVE-2020-12674)
  

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.

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1866309 - CVE-2020-12100 dovecot: Resource exhaustion via deeply nested MIME parts
• BZ - 1866313 - CVE-2020-12673 dovecot: Out of bound reads in dovecot NTLM implementation
• BZ - 1866317 - CVE-2020-12674 dovecot: Crash due to assert in RPA implementation

CVEs

• CVE-2020-12100
• CVE-2020-12673
• CVE-2020-12674

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important