Summary
The remote host is missing an update to dovecot
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:242.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:242
Insight
A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in dovecot:
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the Sieve plugin in Dovecot 1.0 before 1.0.4 and 1.1 before 1.1.7, as derived from Cyrus libsieve, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted SIEVE script, as demonstrated by forwarding an e-mail message to a large number of recipients, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2632 (CVE-2009-3235).
This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.
Affected: 2009.0, Enterprise Server 5.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2632, CVE-2009-3235 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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