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CVE-2006-5973
Off-by-one buffer overflow in Dovecot 1.0test53 through 1.0.rc14, and possibly other versions, when index files are used and mmap_disable…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.9%
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Description
Off-by-one buffer overflow in Dovecot 1.0test53 through 1.0.rc14, and possibly other versions, when index files are used and mmap_disable is set to "yes," allows remote authenticated IMAP or POP3 users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving the cache file.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (14)
- [Dovecot-news] 20091119 1.0.rc15 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-387-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 23150 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2006:073 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 23007 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23172 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- dovecot-indexcache-bo(30433) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20061119 Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server: Off-by-one buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- [Dovecot-news] 20061119 Security hole #2: Off-by-one buffer overflow with mmap_disable=yes (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 23213 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1017288 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4614 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 21183 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-802 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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