dovecot — security advisory
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Dovecot before 1.0beta3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or hang) via unspecified vectors involving (1) "potential hangs" in the APPEND command and "potential crashes" in (2) dovecot-auth and (3) imap/pop3-login. NOTE: vector 2 might be related to a double free vulnerability.
- Products
- dovecot
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.0.beta3-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-0730
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Dovecot before 1.0beta3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or hang) via unspecified vectors involving (1) "potential hangs" in the APPEND command and "potential crashes" in (2) dovecot-auth and (3) imap/pop3-login. NOTE: vector 2 might be related to a double free vulnerability.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0730
dovecot
Fixed versions: 1.0.beta3-1
dovecot
Fixed versions: 1.0.beta3-1
dovecot
Fixed versions: 1.0.beta3-1
Complete source record
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