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USN-3587-2: Dovecot vulnerabilities dovecot vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary Several security issues were fixed in Dovecot. Software Description dovecot – IMAP and POP3 email server Details USN-3587-1 fixed a vulnerability in Dovecot. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled parsing certain email addresses. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Dovecot to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2017-14461) It was discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled TLS SNI config lookups. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Dovecot to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-15130) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.04 [ more… ]