FKIE_CVE-2006-5973
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-11-20 19:07 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:32
Severity
Summary
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.
References
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