Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-386
Advisory Release Date: 2014-07-23 14:09 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 11:39 Pacific
Dovecot 1.1 before 2.2.13 and dovecot-ee before 2.1.7.7 and 2.2.x before 2.2.12.12 does not properly close old connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an incomplete SSL/TLS handshake for an IMAP/POP3 connection.
Affected Packages:
dovecot
Issue Correction:
Run yum update dovecot to update your system.
i686:
dovecot-pigeonhole-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.i686
dovecot-devel-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.i686
dovecot-debuginfo-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.i686
dovecot-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.i686
dovecot-mysql-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.i686
dovecot-pgsql-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.i686
src:
dovecot-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.src
x86_64:
dovecot-debuginfo-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.x86_64
dovecot-pigeonhole-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.x86_64
dovecot-devel-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.x86_64
dovecot-pgsql-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.x86_64
dovecot-mysql-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.x86_64
dovecot-2.0.9-7.14.amzn1.x86_64