Fedora 40: dovecot 2024-e23e8a3f1e Security Advisory Updates
Summary
Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security
primarily in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server. It supports mail
in either of maildir or mbox formats.
The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in their subpackages.
Update Information:
CVE-2024-23184: A large number of address headers in email resulted in excessive CPU usage. CVE-2024-23185: Abnormally large email headers are now truncated or discarded, with a limit of 10MB on a single header and 50MB for all the headers of all the parts of an email.
Change Log
* Mon Aug 19 2024 Michal Hlavinka
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2024-e23e8a3f1e 2024-08-28 02:35:34.688486 Name : dovecot Product : Fedora 40 Version : 2.3.21.1 Release : 1.fc40 URL : https://www.dovecot.org/ Summary : Secure imap and pop3 server Description : Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server. It supports mail in either of maildir or mbox formats. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in their subpackages.
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-e23e8a3f1e' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label