RHSA-2021:1887: Red Hat Security Advisory: dovecot security and bug fix update

An update for dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.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. Security Fix(es):

• dovecot: IMAP hibernation function allows mail access (CVE-2020-24386)
• dovecot: Denial of service via mail MIME parsing (CVE-2020-25275) 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section. Related CVEs:
• CVE-2020-24386: dovecot: IMAP hibernation function allows mail access
• CVE-2020-25275: dovecot: Denial of service via mail MIME parsing