RHSA-2009:1459High

Red Hat Security Advisory: cyrus-imapd security update

Published
September 23, 2009
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2009-2632 →CVE-2009-3235 →

📋 Description

CVE-2009-2632 — cyrus-imapd: buffer overflow in cyrus sieve CVE-2009-3235 — cyrus-impad: CMU sieve buffer overflows

🎯 Affected products149

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.3.7-7.el5_4.3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.3.7-7.el5_4.3.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.3.7-7.el5_4.3.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.3.7-7.el5_4.3.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.3.7-7.el5_4.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • cyrus-imapd-0:2.3.7-7.el5_4.3.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259 Workaround: All these additional overflows are sprintf()s to static char buffers. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later (including all current Fedora versoins), these overflows are caught by FORTIFY_SOURCE reducing the impact to controlled abort of one of the cyrus-imapd child processes that are later re-spawned by the master.

🔗 References (5)