CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-15132

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-01-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-01-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-772

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.

Affected configurations

• dovecot dovecot (>= 2.0.0 <= 2.2.33) • dovecot dovecot 2.3.0 • debian debian linux 7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 17.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness

References