| Name | CVE-2019-10691 |
| Description | The JSON encoder in Dovecot before 2.3.5.2 allows attackers to repeatedly crash the authentication service by attempting to authenticate with an invalid UTF-8 sequence as the username. |
| Source | CVE (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 Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| dovecot (PTS) | buster | 1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u6 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u7 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1 | fixed |
| sid | 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| dovecot | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| dovecot | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| dovecot | source | (unstable) | 1:2.3.4.1-4 | | | |
Notes
[stretch] - dovecot <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present, introduced in 2.3)
[jessie] - dovecot <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present, introduced in 2.3)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/18/3