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TITLE:
Dovecot Cache File Off-By-One Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23007

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23007/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Dovecot 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/10191/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Dovecot, which can be exploited
by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially
compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an off-by-one error when the
dovecot.index.cache file is read into memory. If the "mmap_disable"
option is set to "yes", this can be exploited to cause a one-byte
buffer overflow.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.0test53 through 1.0.rc14.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0rc15.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2006-November/000024.html

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