CVE-2020-10957

Publication date 18 May 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

In Dovecot before 2.3.10.1, unauthenticated sending of malformed parameters to a NOOP command causes a NULL Pointer Dereference and crash in submission-login, submission, or lmtp.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dovecot 20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3.1
19.10 eoan
Fixed 1:2.3.4.1-5ubuntu3.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

alexmurray

According to upstream, versions from 2.3.0 to 2.3.10 are affected

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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