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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1333-1 dovecot security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4130-1 dovecot security update
EUVD EUVD 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3556-1 Dovecot vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3556-2 Dovecot vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-01-25T20:29:00.213

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:14:08.107

Link: CVE-2017-15132

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-01-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-15132 - Bugzilla

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