CVE-2017-15132 (GCVE-0-2017-15132)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-01-25 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:36
VLAI
Summary
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
No CVSS data available.
CWE
Assigner
redhat CNA
References
URL Tags
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-Fe… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
The Dovecot Project dovecot Affected: 2.0 up to 2.2.33 and 2.3.0
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Date Public
2018-01-25 00:00
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