Ubuntu Security Update USN-4993-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities

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Kirin discovered that Dovecot incorrectly escaped kid and azp fields in JWT tokens. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to validate tokens using arbitrary keys. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.10 and Ubuntu 21.04. (CVE-2021-29157) Fabian Ising and Damian Poddebniak discovered that Dovecot incorrectly handled STARTTLS when using the SMTP submission service. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject plaintext commands before STARTTLS negotiation. (CVE-2021-33515)

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