CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
96.8%
Issue Overview:
The cyrus-imapd packages contain a high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and Sieve support.
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the cyrus-imapd NNTP server, nntpd. A remote user able to use the nntpd service could use this flaw to crash the nntpd child process or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the cyrus user. (CVE-2011-3208)
Users of cyrus-imapd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, cyrus-imapd will be restarted automatically.
Affected Packages:
cyrus-imapd
Issue Correction:
Run yum update cyrus-imapd to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
cyrus-imapd-debuginfo-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.i686
cyrus-imapd-utils-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.i686
cyrus-imapd-devel-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.i686
cyrus-imapd-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.i686
src:
cyrus-imapd-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.src
x86_64:
cyrus-imapd-debuginfo-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.x86_64
cyrus-imapd-devel-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.x86_64
cyrus-imapd-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.x86_64
cyrus-imapd-utils-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.x86_64
Red Hat: CVE-2011-3208
Mitre: CVE-2011-3208
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | cyrus-imapd-debuginfo | < 2.3.16-6.4.amzn1 | cyrus-imapd-debuginfo-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | cyrus-imapd-utils | < 2.3.16-6.4.amzn1 | cyrus-imapd-utils-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | cyrus-imapd-devel | < 2.3.16-6.4.amzn1 | cyrus-imapd-devel-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | cyrus-imapd | < 2.3.16-6.4.amzn1 | cyrus-imapd-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | cyrus-imapd-debuginfo | < 2.3.16-6.4.amzn1 | cyrus-imapd-debuginfo-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | cyrus-imapd-devel | < 2.3.16-6.4.amzn1 | cyrus-imapd-devel-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | cyrus-imapd | < 2.3.16-6.4.amzn1 | cyrus-imapd-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | cyrus-imapd-utils | < 2.3.16-6.4.amzn1 | cyrus-imapd-utils-2.3.16-6.4.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |