5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.091 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.7%
It was discovered that the Dovecot email server is vulnerable to a
denial of service attack against imap/pop3-login processes due to
incorrect handling of the closure of inactive SSL/TLS connections.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1.
For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.2.13~rc1-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.2.13~rc1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages.