CVE-2017-15130

N/A
Published: March 2, 2018 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:07 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxDovecot

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

Description

A 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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 2.2.34
Affected range stops below 2.2.34, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (7)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/205
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532356
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTRelease NotesVendor Advisory
https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400NVD-CWE-noinfo

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