CVE-2017-14461 Information

Description

A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service. In order to trigger this vulnerability an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103201 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130 https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.1