ALPINE-CVE-2026-27852
An attacker that can send mail to a user can craft a message whose headers contain a very large number of email addresses or MIME parameters, which causes excessive memory usage when the message is later parsed. The message is still delivered, but reading it over IMAP can exhaust the memory limit of the process and terminate it, causing denial of service for the affected user. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
ALPINE-CVE-2026-27852
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: osv:ALPINE-CVE-2026-27852
dovecot
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 2.4.5-r0
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
dovecot
Source reference: /affected/1/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 2.4.5-r0
Source reference:
/affected/1/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
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}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "dovecot",
"purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/dovecot?arch=source",
"ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.23"
},
"database_specific": {
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},
"ecosystem_specific": {}
},
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"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
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}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "dovecot",
"purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/dovecot?arch=source",
"ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.24"
},
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-27852.json"
},
"ecosystem_specific": {}
}
]Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
- Event
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