dovecot: Fix of 7 CVEs
- 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
- 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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