Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-0730 - Denial of Service vulnerability in Dovecot Double Free

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
timo-sirainen

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Dovecot before 1.0beta3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or hang) via unspecified vectors involving (1) "potential hangs" in the APPEND command and "potential crashes" in (2) dovecot-auth and (3) imap/pop3-login. NOTE: vector 2 might be related to a double free vulnerability.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Timo_Sirainen
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Statements

contributorMark J Cox
lastmodified2006-08-16
organizationRed Hat
statementThis issue only affected Dovecot versions 1.0beta1 and 1.0beta2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 shipped with an earlier version of Dovecot and is therefore not vulnerable to this issue.