RHSA-2020:3617 — Security Advisory

An update for dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux and other UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server, and supports e-mail in either the maildir or mbox format. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are provided as subpackages.

Security Fix(es):

• dovecot: Resource exhaustion via deeply nested MIME parts (CVE-2020-12100)

• dovecot: Out of bound reads in dovecot NTLM implementation (CVE-2020-12673)

• dovecot: Crash due to assert in RPA implementation (CVE-2020-12674)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.