CVE-2017-15132
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-01-25 20:00
Modified
2024-09-17 00:36
Severity ?
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patchPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patchPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.htmlVendor Advisory
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