RHSA-2020:4763 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: dovecot security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 4, 2020
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.
Description
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):
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dovecot: command followed by sufficient number of newlines leads to use-after-free (CVE-2020-10958)
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dovecot: sending mail with empty quoted localpart leads to DoS (CVE-2020-10967)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.