Open-Xchange Security Advisory 2019-04-30 Product: Dovecot Vendor: OX Software GmbH
Internal reference: DOV-3212 (Bug ID) Vulnerability type: CWE-476 Vulnerable version: 2.3.0 - 2.3.5.2 Vulnerable component: submission-login Report confidence: Confirmed Researcher credits: Marcelo Coelho Solution status: Fixed by Vendor Fixed version: 2.3.6 Vendor notificatio: 2019-03-11 Solution date: 2019-04-23 Public disclosure: 2019-04-30 CVE reference: CVE-2019-11494 CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Vulnerability Details: Submission-login crashes with signal 11 due to null pointer access when authentication is aborted by disconnecting. This can lead to denial-of-service attack by persistent attacker(s).
Workaround: There is no available workaround for this issue.
Solution: Operators should upgrade to a fixed version.