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.
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Advisories
Source | ID | Title |
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DLA-1333-1 | dovecot security update |
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DSA-4130-1 | dovecot security update |
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EUVD-2017-6593 | 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. |
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USN-3556-1 | Dovecot vulnerability |
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USN-3556-2 | Dovecot vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-17T00:36:33.953Z
Reserved: 2017-10-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-15132

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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-01-25T20:29:00.213
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:14:08.107
Link: CVE-2017-15132


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