CVE-2017-14461

Publication date 28 February 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.1 · High

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dovecot 17.10 artful
Fixed 1:2.2.27-3ubuntu1.3
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:2.2.22-1ubuntu2.7
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.4

Notes

mdeslaur

affects 2.0 - 2.2.33, 2.3.0

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.1 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

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