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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201412-03">
<title>Dovecot: Denial of Service</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in Dovecot could allow a remote attacker to create
a Denial of Service condition.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">dovecot</product>
<announced>December 08, 2014</announced>
<revised>December 08, 2014: 1</revised>
<bug>509954</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-mail/dovecot" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.2.13</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.2.13</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Dovecot does not properly close connections, allowing a resource
exhaustion for incomplete SSL/TLS handshakes.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Dovecot users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-mail/dovecot-2.2.13"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3430">CVE-2014-3430</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 04 Aug 2014 18:57:07 +0000">
keytoaster
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:57:38 +0000">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>