CVE-2019-11500
15Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 63%
exploitation probability
63%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In Dovecot before 2.2.36.4 and 2.3.x before 2.3.7.2 (and Pigeonhole before 0.5.7.2), protocol processing can fail for quoted strings. This occurs because '\0' characters are mishandled, and can lead to out-of-bounds writes and remote code execution.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00024.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00026.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2822https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2836https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2885https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2019-August/000417.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00035.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3GYTZLLDNIFWT7D7JSB25ERJNMOR4CQ3/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KVHY3MU2OK2EWZJFGNDSAOMD42L7DFPX/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YSJVVVRAE3SITC2ZLGCPMFDN3WVYZBWF/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-29https://www.dovecot.org/security.html