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dovecot: denial of service

Package(s):dovecot CVE #(s):CVE-2008-4907
Created:November 12, 2008 Updated:December 15, 2008
Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

It was discovered that certain email headers were not correctly handled by Dovecot. If a remote attacker sent a specially crafted email to a user with a mailbox managed by Dovecot, that user's mailbox would become inaccessible through Dovecot, leading to a denial of service.

Alerts:
Gentoo 200812-16 dovecot 2008-12-14
Ubuntu USN-666-1 dovecot 2008-11-07

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