CVE-2006-5973

NameCVE-2006-5973
DescriptionOff-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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
dovecot (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1:2.2.13-12~deb8u9fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1:2.2.27-3+deb9u7fixed
buster1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u6fixed
buster (security)1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u7fixed
bullseye1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u1fixed
bookworm1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1fixed
trixie1:2.3.21+dfsg1-2fixed
sid1:2.3.21+dfsg1-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
dovecotsourcesarge(not affected)
dovecotsource(unstable)1.0.rc15-1

Notes

[sarge] - dovecot <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)

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