CVE-2016-8652 in dovecot

[Jeremiah C. Foster]

On Sat, 2016-12-03 at 12:23 +1000, Noel Butler wrote:
> On 03/12/2016 12:08, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
> 
> > 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 [1]] and
> > mitre [2 [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? 
> 
> No, read it again. the wrong and pasted copie are 8 5 62, his revised
> is
> 8 6 52 

Ah, thank you. So I guess the CVE is then here: https://cve.mitre.org/c
gi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8652 but this doesn't provide a whole
lot more information yet.

Cheers,

Jeremiah