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dovecot — security advisory
An attacker can cause uncontrolled memory usage with excessive bracing over IMAP. The fix in CVE-2026-27857 was incomplete, only blocking one way of doing this, so there was still another way left open. In particular, the fix was for closing braces, but you could still use open braces to bypass the limit. Using excessive bracing, attacker can cause memory usage up to configured memory limit. Install fixed version, or configure vsz_limit for imap process to low value. No publicly available exploits are known.
- Products
- dovecot
- Affected versions
- 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1, 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u1, 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u2, 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u3, 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u4, 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u5, 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6, 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u1, 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u2, 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u3, 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u4, 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u5, 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-7, 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-8, 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-9, 1:2.4.2+dfsg1-1, 1:2.4.2+dfsg1-2, 1:2.4.2+dfsg1-3, 1:2.4.2+dfsg1-4, 1:2.4.3+dfsg1-1, 1:2.4.3+dfsg1-2
- Fixed versions
- 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u6, 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u6, 1:2.4.4+dfsg1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-42006
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 17:46 UTC · Revision 2
Source evidence
An attacker can cause uncontrolled memory usage with excessive bracing over IMAP. The fix in CVE-2026-27857 was incomplete, only blocking one way of doing this, so there was still another way left open. In particular, the fix was for closing braces, but you could still use open braces to bypass the limit. Using excessive bracing, attacker can cause memory usage up to configured memory limit. Install fixed version, or configure vsz_limit for imap process to low value. No publicly available exploits are known.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-42006
dovecot
Fixed versions: 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u6
dovecot
Fixed versions: 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-6+deb13u6
dovecot
Fixed versions: 1:2.4.4+dfsg1-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-27T09:47:36.117764313Z",
"provider": "osv",
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