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[email protected]CVE-2017-15132

HistoryJan 25, 2018 - 8:29 p.m.

CVE-2017-15132

2018-01-2520:29:00

CWE-400

CWE-772

[email protected]

web.nvd.nist.gov

cve-2017-15132

dovecot

memory leak

sasl authentication

nvd

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.009 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.6%

JSON

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 configurations

Vulners

NVD

Node

the_dovecot_projectdovecotRange2.0–2.2.33

the_dovecot_projectdovecotRange≤2.3.0

CPENameOperatorVersion
dovecot:dovecotdovecotle2.2.33
dovecot:dovecotdovecoteq2.3.0

CPE	Name	Operator	Version
dovecot:dovecot	dovecot	le	2.2.33
dovecot:dovecot	dovecot	eq	2.3.0

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "dovecot",
    "vendor": "The Dovecot Project",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.0 up to 2.2.33 and 2.3.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]