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dovecot: Fix of 7 CVEs

Type: advisorySources: OSV

- CVE-2026-27852: bound the transient RFC 2231 parameter list and the MIME parameter budget so a single oversized Content-Type header cannot exhaust imap memory - CVE-2026-33263: track SMTP server connection closure so submission-login does not keep using a closed connection - CVE-2026-33605: fix ManageSieve parser handling of a single-byte quoted string read in managesieve-login - CVE-2026-40018: connect before expanding the passdb-sql password query and refuse to escape in the MySQL driver without a connection instead of escaping with the default charset - CVE-2026-42007: fix Sieve editheader edit-mail handling of deleted and NUL-containing header values - CVE-2026-42391: account external key/value pairs in the IMAP login ID command so a client cannot send an unbounded number of them - CVE-2026-73208: validate the OAuth2 token audience and stop falling back to the aud claim when audience is configured

Products
dovecot, dovecot-devel, dovecot-mysql, dovecot-pgsql, dovecot-pigeonhole
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1:2.3.16-8.el9_2.tuxcare.els8
CVEs
CVE-2026-27852, CVE-2026-33263, CVE-2026-33605, CVE-2026-40018, CVE-2026-42007, CVE-2026-42391, CVE-2026-73208
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 10:47 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

dovecot: Fix of 7 CVEs

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Oct 2026, 08:16 UTC

- CVE-2026-27852: bound the transient RFC 2231 parameter list and the MIME parameter budget so a single oversized Content-Type header cannot exhaust imap memory - CVE-2026-33263: track SMTP server connection closure so submission-login does not keep using a closed connection - CVE-2026-33605: fix ManageSieve parser handling of a single-byte quoted string read in managesieve-login - CVE-2026-40018: connect before expanding the passdb-sql password query and refuse to escape in the MySQL driver without a connection instead of escaping with the default charset - CVE-2026-42007: fix Sieve editheader edit-mail handling of deleted and NUL-containing header values - CVE-2026-42391: account external key/value pairs in the IMAP login ID command so a client cannot send an unbounded number of them - CVE-2026-73208: validate the OAuth2 token audience and stop falling back to the aud claim when audience is configured

osv:CLSA-2026-1792570553

dovecot

Fixed versions: 1:2.3.16-8.el9_2.tuxcare.els8

dovecot-devel

Fixed versions: 1:2.3.16-8.el9_2.tuxcare.els8

dovecot-mysql

Fixed versions: 1:2.3.16-8.el9_2.tuxcare.els8

dovecot-pgsql

Fixed versions: 1:2.3.16-8.el9_2.tuxcare.els8

dovecot-pigeonhole

Fixed versions: 1:2.3.16-8.el9_2.tuxcare.els8

Complete source record
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