CVE-2010-0745

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-05-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via long headers in an e-mail message.

Affected products

dovecot: 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5 (+5)

References

http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2010-March/000152.html
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-February/047190.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127013715227551&w=2
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0745
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:104
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/10/6
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1107
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1226
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572268
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2010-March/000152.html
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-February/047190.html

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