CVE-2017-15132
N/A
Published: January 25, 2018 at 08:00 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 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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patchMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400CWE-772
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