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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40015

An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cau...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 dovecot
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:13 dovecot
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u7"}]}]
Debian:14 dovecot
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.4.5+dfsg1-1"}]}]

References

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