CVE-2006-5973

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Timo Sirainen Dovecot: 1.0, 1.0.alpha1, 1.0.alpha2, 1.0.alpha3, 1.0.alpha4, 1.0.alpha5 (+51)

References

http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2006-November/000023.html
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2006-November/000024.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23007
http://secunia.com/advisories/23150
http://secunia.com/advisories/23172
http://secunia.com/advisories/23213
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017288
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452081/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21183/info
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-387-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4614

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