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CVE-2006-5973

Date: November 20, 2006

Off-by-one buffer overflow in Dovecot 1.0test53 through 1.0.rc14, and possibly other versions, when index files are used and mmap_disable is set to "yes," allows remote authenticated IMAP or POP3 users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving the cache file.

Severity Score

Related Resources (17)

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23150
http://secunia.com/advisories/23172
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452081/100/0/threaded
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5973
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2006-November/000024.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-387-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30433
http://secunia.com/advisories/23007
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-802
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-5973
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2006-November/000023.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017288
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4614
http://secunia.com/advisories/23213
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21183/info
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-5973

Severity Score

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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