Security advisory

{
  "id": "c5bacaef544862058efb862249aa7bec89a85a79f17e44383b986c3aae2a8c97",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-14461",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-14461",
    "summary": "A specially crafted email delivered over SMTP and passed on to Dovecot by MTA can trigger an out of bounds read resulting in potential sensitive information disclosure and denial of service. In order to trigger this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the server.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-14461",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-14461",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-14461"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/dovecot/core",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "d6601f4ec19ca263ab1e5fd54412e6c302aeffe3"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "d6601f4ec19ca263ab1e5fd54412e6c302aeffe3"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:2.2.33.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.2.33.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.2.33.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.2.33.2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14461.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:25.526832839Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/",
        "https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0510",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130",
        "https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:ubuntu:ubuntu:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:ubuntu:ubuntu:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:ubuntu:ubuntu:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "ubuntu:ubuntu",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "14.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "17.10"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "17.10"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-14461",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431381,
  "published_at": "2018-03-02T15:29:00.21+00:00"
}