CVE-2017-15130

Summary

CVECVE-2017-15130
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-02 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionA denial of service flaw was found in dovecot before 2.2.34. An attacker able to generate random SNI server names could exploit TLS SNI configuration lookups, leading to excessive memory usage and the process to restart.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Dovecot Dovecot All All All All
Application Dovecot Dovecot All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-3587-1: Dovecot vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4130-1 dovecot DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
USN-3587-2: Dovecot vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[Dovecot-news] v2.2.34 released MLIST www.dovecot.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
1532356 – (CVE-2017-15130) CVE-2017-15130 dovecot: TLS SNI config lookups are inefficient and can be used for DoS CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1333-1] dovecot security update MLIST lists.debian.org
oss-sec: Dovecot Security Advisory: CVE-2017-15130 TLS SNI config lookups are inefficient and can be used for DoS MLIST seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500152 Alpine Linux Security Update for dovecot
  • 503802 Alpine Linux Security Update for dovecot
  • 671129 EulerOS Security Update for dovecot (EulerOS-SA-2019-2138)
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