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CVE-2009-3235

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
17/09/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the Sieve plugin in Dovecot 1.0 before 1.0.4 and 1.1 before 1.1.7, as derived from Cyrus libsieve, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted SIEVE script, as demonstrated by forwarding an e-mail message to a large number of recipients, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2632.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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