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CVE-2017-14461
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 16.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2018-03-02 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-125
Description
A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service. In order to trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
- dovecot: 2.2.33.2
- Ubuntu: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103201
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130
- https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103201
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/
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