Dovecot before version 2.2.29 is vulnerable to a denial of service. When 'dict' passdb and userdb were used for user authentication, the username sent by the IMAP/POP3 client was sent through var_expand() to perform %variable expansion. Sending specially crafted %variable fields could result in excessive memory usage causing the process to crash (and restart), or excessive CPU usage causing all authentications to hang.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-06-21T13:00:00

Updated: 2018-06-22T09:57:01

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-2669

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-21T13:29:00.317

Modified: 2019-10-09T23:27:03.807


Link: CVE-2017-2669

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