CVE-2017-15132
HIGH7.5EPSS 2.8%Published: 1/25/2018Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-15132DEBIAN-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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/dovecotfrom 0, < 2.3.1-r0
- Debian/dovecotfrom 0, < 1:2.2.34-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |