CVE
CVE-2017-15132
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.
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS
- 7.5
- Published
- Modified
Linked Releases
| Distribution | Release | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | 16.04.7 amd64 desktop | unknown | source |
| Ubuntu | 16.04.6 i386 desktop | unknown | source |
| Ubuntu | 16.04.7 amd64 server | unknown | source |
| Ubuntu | 16.04.6 i386 server | unknown | source |
| Ubuntu | 14.04.6 amd64 desktop | unknown | source |
| Ubuntu | 14.04.6 i386 desktop | unknown | source |
| Ubuntu | 14.04.6 amd64 server | unknown | source |
| Ubuntu | 14.04.6 i386 server | unknown | source |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768
- https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130
- https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768
- https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130
- https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html