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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2018-01-25

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-400, CWE-772

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Dovecot (Dovecot)
• Dovecot (The Dovecot Project)

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