Hi Noah,

[sorry for lack of reply to the previous mail, busy with other stuff]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 08:03:12AM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 08:21:45AM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> > > > CVE-2021-33515[0]:
> > > > | The submission service in Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows STARTTLS
> > > > | command injection in lib-smtp. Sensitive information can be redirected
> > > > | to an attacker-controlled address.
> > > > 
> > > > https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2021-June/000462.html
> > > > https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/06/28/2
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > CVE-2021-29157[1]:
> > > > | Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows ../ Path Traversal. An attacker with
> > > > | access to the local filesystem can trick OAuth2 authentication into
> > > > | using an HS256 validation key from an attacker-controlled location.
> > > > | This occurs during use of local JWT validation with the posix fs
> > > > | driver.
> > > > 
> > > > https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2021-June/000461.html
> > > > https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/06/28/1
> 
> Ubuntu has released fixes for these, and I've been able to incorporate
> their backports into the current bullseye packages. [1]

Ack, very nice.

> > > > CVE-2020-28200[2]:
> > > > | The Sieve engine in Dovecot before 2.3.15 allows Uncontrolled Resource
> > > > | Consumption, as demonstrated by a situation with a complex regular
> > > > | expression for the regex extension.
> > > > 
> > > > https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2021-June/000460.html
> > > > https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/06/28/3
> 
> This change is quite a bit more disruptive, as it basically would
> require backporting the entire Sieve resource accounting framework.  Per
> a comment on Ubuntu's tracker, this is not practical to backport. [2]  I
> agree with this assessment.  I'd be much more inclined to update to the
> latest upstream release and deal with any compatibility issues rather
> than try backporting this functionality, if we decide we really need it.
> 
> I will be uploading 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2 to sid with fixes for the first two
> CVEs in the near term.  Will investigate a similar fix for buster via
> the next point release.  Will follow up with the release teams to get
> the updated packages into the archive.

Thanks this sound sensible!

Regards,
Salvatore

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