CVE-2006-5973 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-5973 at MITRE

Description

Off-by-one buffer overflow in Dovecot 1.0test53 through 1.0.rc14, and possibly other versions, when index files are used and mmap_disable is set to "yes," allows remote authenticated IMAP or POP3 users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving the cache file.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 222613 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:073, published Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:17:27 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:50 2025