Upstream information

CVE-2019-7524 at MITRE

Description

In Dovecot before 2.2.36.3 and 2.3.x before 2.3.5.1, a local attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the indexer-worker process, which can be used to elevate to root. This occurs because of missing checks in the fts and pop3-uidl components.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.2
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 7.8 6.7
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required Low High
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1130116 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-Storage-4-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
  • dovecot22-devel >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4
  • dovecot22-devel >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.17.1
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.17.1
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.17.1
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.17.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 GA dovecot22-2.2.31-19.17.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
  • dovecot23 >= 2.3.3-4.10.1
  • dovecot23-backend-mysql >= 2.3.3-4.10.1
  • dovecot23-backend-pgsql >= 2.3.3-4.10.1
  • dovecot23-backend-sqlite >= 2.3.3-4.10.1
  • dovecot23-devel >= 2.3.3-4.10.1
  • dovecot23-fts >= 2.3.3-4.10.1
  • dovecot23-fts-lucene >= 2.3.3-4.10.1
  • dovecot23-fts-solr >= 2.3.3-4.10.1
  • dovecot23-fts-squat >= 2.3.3-4.10.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-2019-876
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-POS-12-SP2-CLIENT-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-ESPOS-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-devel >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2019-900
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-devel >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-900
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.17.1
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.17.1
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.17.1
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.17.1
  • dovecot22-devel >= 2.2.31-19.17.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 GA dovecot22-2.2.31-19.17.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 GA dovecot22-devel-2.2.31-19.17.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-900
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5
  • dovecot22-devel >= 2.2.31-19.17.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 GA dovecot22-devel-2.2.31-19.17.1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7
  • dovecot22 >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-mysql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-pgsql >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
  • dovecot22-backend-sqlite >= 2.2.31-19.14.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-900
openSUSE Leap 15.0
  • dovecot23 >= 2.3.3-lp150.8.2
  • dovecot23-backend-mysql >= 2.3.3-lp150.8.2
  • dovecot23-backend-pgsql >= 2.3.3-lp150.8.2
  • dovecot23-backend-sqlite >= 2.3.3-lp150.8.2
  • dovecot23-devel >= 2.3.3-lp150.8.2
  • dovecot23-fts >= 2.3.3-lp150.8.2
  • dovecot23-fts-lucene >= 2.3.3-lp150.8.2
  • dovecot23-fts-solr >= 2.3.3-lp150.8.2
  • dovecot23-fts-squat >= 2.3.3-lp150.8.2
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2019-1212
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • dovecot23 >= 2.3.16-1.6
  • dovecot23-backend-mysql >= 2.3.16-1.6
  • dovecot23-backend-pgsql >= 2.3.16-1.6
  • dovecot23-backend-sqlite >= 2.3.16-1.6
  • dovecot23-devel >= 2.3.16-1.6
  • dovecot23-fts >= 2.3.16-1.6
  • dovecot23-fts-lucene >= 2.3.16-1.6
  • dovecot23-fts-solr >= 2.3.16-1.6
  • dovecot23-fts-squat >= 2.3.16-1.6
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA dovecot23-2.3.16-1.6

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 Enterprise Storage 7 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP4 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP5 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 dovecot Not affected
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 dovecot23 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS dovecot23 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS dovecot23 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP3 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS dovecot23 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 dovecot23 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 dovecot Not affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 dovecot Not affected
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 dovecot23 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 dovecot23 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS dovecot23 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 dovecot22 Released
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 dovecot Not affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 dovecot Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 dovecot Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 dovecot22 Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 dovecot Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 dovecot Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 dovecot Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 dovecot22 Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 dovecot Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 dovecot22 Affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Mar 21 17:36:34 2019
CVE page last modified: Fri Jun 9 14:52:36 2023