Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-64            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2008-11-07
  Severity: 2
      Type: Remote
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Summary
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The invalid message address parsing bug is pretty  important  since  it 
allows a remote user to  send  broken  mail  headers  and  prevent  the 
recipient from accessing the mailbox afterwards,  because  the  process 
will always just crash trying to parse the header. 


Description
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This is assuming that the IMAP client uses FETCH ENVELOPE command,  not 
all do. 


Affected packages:

  Pardus 2008:
    dovecot, all before 1.1.6-18-3


Resolution
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There are update(s) for dovecot. You can update them via Package Manager
or with a single command from console: 

    pisi up dovecot

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8572

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