Security Advisory

CVE-2020-7957

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-02-12 16:50:56
Last updated 2024-08-04 09:48:24
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The IMAP and LMTP components in Dovecot 2.3.9 before 2.3.9.3 mishandle snippet generation when many characters must be read to compute the snippet and a trailing > character exists. This causes a denial of service in which the recipient cannot read all of their messages.