CVE-2017-15132

Summary

CVECVE-2017-15132
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-25 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:24:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-772

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 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 Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 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 7.0 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 7.0 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 2.3.0 All All All
Application Dovecot Dovecot 2.3.0 All All All
Application Dovecot Dovecot All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4130-1 dovecot DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
USN-3556-1: Dovecot vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
USN-3556-2: Dovecot vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[Dovecot-news] v2.2.34 released MLIST www.dovecot.org Vendor Advisory
Bug 1532768 – CVE-2017-15132 dovecot: Auth leaks memory if SASL authentication is aborted CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1333-1] dovecot security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.... CONFIRM github.com Patch, 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
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