Exploit Dovecot 1.1.x - Invalid Message Address Parsing Denial of Service

[Exploiter]

EDB-ID

32551

Проверка EDB

1. Пройдено

Автор

ANONYMOUS

Тип уязвимости

DOS

Платформа

LINUX

CVE

cve-2008-4907

Дата публикации

2008-10-30

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31997/info

Dovecot is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to handle certain specially crafted email headers.

An attacker can exploit this issue to prevent recipients from accessing their mailboxes.

For an exploit to succeed, the IMAP client connecting to Dovecot must use the FETCH ENVELOPE command.

The issue affects Dovecot 1.1.4 and 1.1.5. 

The following invalid message address header is sufficient to trigger this issue:

"From: ("