Dovecot: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201904-19

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Dovecot, the worst of which could result in root privilege escalation.

Affected packages

net-mail/dovecot on all architectures
Affected versions < 2.3.5.1
Unaffected versions >= 2.3.5.1

Background

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dovecot. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Dovecot users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/dovecot-2.3.5.1"
 

References

Release date
April 17, 2019

Latest revision
April 17, 2019: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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