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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:29:17 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>,
Steven Christey <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: Dovecot DoS in 2.x (fixed in 2.1.11)
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On 12/04/2012 03:48 PM, Vincent Danen wrote:
> * [2012-12-04 23:01:42 +0100] Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 06:12:29PM +0100, Matthias Weckbecker
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Kurt, Vincent, vendors, ...
>>>
>>> Quoting Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>:
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>>>> On 12/03/2012 10:33 AM, Vincent Danen wrote:
>>>>> Could a CVE be assigned for the following please?
>>>>>
>>>>> Dovecot 2.1.11 was released and includes a fix for a crash
>>>>> condition when the IMAP server was issued a SEARCH command
>>>>> with multiple KEYWORD parameters. An authenticated remote
>>>>> user could use this flaw to crash Dovecot.
>>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Please use CVE-2012-5620 for this issue.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We were discussing this issue too at [1] and think that it does
>>> only affect the current connection, no subsequent (i.e. new)
>>> connections are affected.
>>>
>>> What's your opinion wrt this?
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=792642
>>
>> Upstream (Timo Sirainen) disputed the issue in the Debian BTS:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695138#15
>
> Ahhh... yes, Timo is correct. If you're only DoS'ing your own
> connection, I wouldn't consider this a flaw.
>
> I (mistakenly) thought this took down the entire dovecot server.
> My apologies.
>
> Can we have this CVE rejected or disputed? As Timo says, it's a
> pointless CVE.
>
> Thanks, and sorry about that.
>
Please REJECT CVE-2012-5620, this only affects the users session and
thus no security boundary is crossed (users can of course always close
their own session, and there is no way to trigger the client to do
this remotely).
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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