CVE-2016-8652 in dovecot

Jeremiah C. Foster jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com
Sat Dec 3 02:08:58 UTC 2016


On Fri, 2016-12-02 at 10:48 +0200, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> 
> On 02.12.2016 10:45, Jonas Wielicki wrote:
> > On Freitag, 2. Dezember 2016 09:00:58 CET Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > > We are sorry to report that we have a bug in dovecot, which
> > > merits a
> > > CVE. See details below. If you haven't configured any
> > > auth_policy_*
> > > settings you are ok. This is fixed with
> > > https://git.dovecot.net/dovecot/core/commit/c3d3faa4f72a676e183f3
> > > 4be960cff13
> > > a5a725ae and
> > > https://git.dovecot.net/dovecot/core/commit/99abb1302ae693ccdfe0d
> > > 57351fd42c6
> > > 7a8612fc
> > > 
> > > Important vulnerability in Dovecot (CVE-2016-8562)
> > 
> > Are you sure about the CVE number? According to Debian [1] and
> > mitre [2], it’s 
> > for SIEMENS something, not Dovecot.
> > 
> > best regards,
> > Jonas Wielicki
> > 
> >    [1]: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8562
> >    [2]: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-856
> > 2
> 
> Ups, sent wrong number, correct is CVE-2016-8652.

That is the same number, no?


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