PT-2026-83050

CVE-2026-27852

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Published

2026-08-28

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Updated

2026-10-21

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.5
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions dovecot versions prior to 2.4.5-1.1
Description An attacker can send a crafted email with headers containing an excessive number of email addresses or MIME parameters. When the message is parsed via IMAP, it leads to excessive memory consumption, which can exhaust the process memory limit and terminate it, resulting in a denial of service for the affected user.
Recommendations Update to version 2.4.5-1.1.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Related identifiers
ALSA-2026:76763
ALSA-2026:79371
ALSA-2026:80825
AZL-98289
CLSA-2026-1792236832
CLSA-2026-1792237792
CLSA-2026-1792238249
CLSA-2026-1792570553
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11629-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21720-1
RHSA-2026:76763
RHSA-2026:79371
RHSA-2026:80825
SUSE-SU-2026:23595-1
SUSE-SU-2026:3919-1
SUSE-SU-2026:4139-1
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