CVE-2011-1929 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Dovecot versions 1.2.x before 1.2.17 and 2.0.x before 2.0.13. This flaw, residing in the lib-mail/message-header-parser.c component, allows remote attackers to crash the daemon or corrupt mailboxes by sending a specially crafted email containing null characters in header names. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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