CVE-2017-15132 | BDVDB-2026-95729 Detail
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Description#
A flaw was found in dovecot 2.0 up to 2.2.33 and 2.3.0. An abort of SASL authentication results in a memory leak in dovecot's auth client used by login processes. The leak has impact in high performance configuration where same login processes are reused and can cause the process to crash due to memory exhaustion.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References#
- https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/
- https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.