Upstream information

CVE-2016-8652 at MITRE

Description

The auth component in Dovecot before 2.2.27, when auth-policy is configured, allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by aborting authentication without setting a username.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 4.3 6.8
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network Network
Access Complexity Medium Medium
Authentication None None
Confidentiality Impact None Partial
Integrity Impact None Partial
Availability Impact Partial Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.9
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1012078 [RESOLVED / WORKSFORME], 1013293 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE]

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Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS dovecot Not affected
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL dovecot Not affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 dovecot Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 dovecot Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 dovecot Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 dovecot Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 dovecot Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 dovecot Not affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Nov 24 13:31:15 2016
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 19:24:23 2023