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.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768 | Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patch | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130 | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html | Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2018-01-25T00:00:00
Updated: 2018-04-01T09:57:02
Reserved: 2017-10-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-15132
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-01-25T20:29:00.213
Modified: 2019-10-09T23:24:15.657
Link: CVE-2017-15132
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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