CVE-2019-7524

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-7524
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-7524.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-7524
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-03-28T14:29:00.417Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:29:46.979974Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Dovecot before 2.2.36.3 and 2.3.x before 2.3.5.1, a local attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the indexer-worker process, which can be used to elevate to root. This occurs because of missing checks in the fts and pop3-uidl components.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/dovecot/core

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/dovecot/core
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
a7d78f5a20888b4be87ffbb27287785f2fa1bae2
Introduced
c8b89eb9968980589904a58e8bd72fc8c00039be
Fixed
7ec6d0adea3aa375c6ba7124c93314b346a78edc
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.2.36.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.3.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.3.5.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-7524.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.10"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "15.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "42.3"
            }
        ]
    }
]