CVE-2017-15132
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 3.1%
exploitation probability
3.1%top 13% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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 products
The Dovecot Project · dovecotReferences
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patchhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.htmlhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html