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CVE-2017-15132
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…
High7.5EPSS 3.1%
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- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 2.0 up to 2.2.33 and 2.3.0
References (7)
- https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180331 [SECURITY] [DLA 1333-1] dovecot security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4130 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-3556-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3556-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [dovecot-news] 20180228 v2.2.34 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
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