Product Errata

RLSA-2022:1950

Moderate: dovecot security update

Topic

An update is available for dovecot.

This update affects Rocky Linux 8.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux and other UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server, and supports e-mail in either the maildir or mbox format. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are provided as subpackages.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: dovecot (2.3.16). (BZ#1980014)

Security Fix(es):

* dovecot: plaintext commands injection (CVE-2021-33515)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Issued: 5/10/2022

Type: Security

Severity: Moderate

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 8

References

  • No references