Summary
It was discovered that the Dovecot email server is vulnerable to a denial of service attack against imap/pop3-login processes due to incorrect handling of the closure of inactive SSL/TLS connections.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1.
For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.2.13~rc1-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.2.13~rc1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages.
Affected
dovecot on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-3430 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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