CVE-2017-15132
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 2.3.0.1-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:2.2.34-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:2.2.34-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:2.2.34-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:2.2.34-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:2.2.34-1 |
References
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.