Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 Dovecot vulnerabilities (USN-7013-1) - Remote attacker can cause denial of servic
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 83 |
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Tenable Nessus | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Dovecot vulnerabilities (USN-6982-1) | 2 Sep 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Debian dla-3860 : dovecot-auth-lua - security update | 2 Sep 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Fedora 40 : dovecot (2024-e23e8a3f1e) | 28 Aug 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 8 : dovecot (RHSA-2024:6973) | 24 Sep 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Rocky Linux 9 : dovecot (RLSA-2024:6529) | 16 Sep 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : dovecot23 (SUSE-SU-2024:3118-1) | 4 Sep 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Debian dsa-5752 : dovecot-auth-lua - security update | 21 Aug 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Slackware Linux 15.0 / current dovecot Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2024-227-01) | 14 Aug 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Fedora 39 : dovecot (2024-ba5bb9f63a) | 28 Aug 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 9 : dovecot (RHSA-2024:6465) | 9 Sep 202400:00 | – | nessus |
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# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7013-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
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script_cve_id("CVE-2024-23184", "CVE-2024-23185");
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"The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as
referenced in the USN-7013-1 advisory.
It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled a large number of address headers. A remote attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause Dovecot to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-23184)
It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled very large headers. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause Dovecot to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-23185)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
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script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dovecot-lucene");
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include('debian_package.inc');
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('20.04' >< os_release || '22.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-auth-lua', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-core', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-dev', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-gssapi', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-imapd', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-ldap', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-lmtpd', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-lucene', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-managesieved', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-mysql', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-pgsql', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-pop3d', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-sieve', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-solr', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-sqlite', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-submissiond', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'mail-stack-delivery', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.7'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-auth-lua', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-core', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-dev', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-gssapi', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-imapd', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-ldap', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-lmtpd', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-lucene', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-managesieved', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-mysql', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-pgsql', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-pop3d', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-sieve', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-solr', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-sqlite', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'dovecot-submissiond', 'pkgver': '1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4'}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var osver = NULL;
var pkgname = NULL;
var pkgver = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
var extra = '';
extra += ubuntu_report_get();
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : extra
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'dovecot-auth-lua / dovecot-core / dovecot-dev / dovecot-gssapi / etc');
}
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