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Message-ID: <537BB187.1040606@canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:48:23 -0400
From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@...onical.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: dovecot denial of service
On 14-05-20 03:32 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we were made aware of a recently fixed DoS vulnerability in Dovecot,
> which doesn't seem to have a CVE id assigned:
>
> http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2014-May/000273.html
>
> states:
>
> * Fixed a DoS attack against imap/pop3-login processes. If SSL/TLS
> handshake was started but wasn't finished, the login process
> attempted to eventually forcibly disconnect the client, but failed
> to do it correctly. This could have left the connections hanging
> arond for a long time. (Affected Dovecot v1.1+)
>
> Could a CVE be assigned for this vulnerability?
>
Isn't that CVE-2014-3430?
Marc.
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