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ALPINE-CVE-2017-15132
ALPINE-CVE-2017-15132
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
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.
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.16 | dovecot | 2.2.11-r0, 0, 1.1.14-r1 |
| Alpine:v3.17 | dovecot | 1.1.11-r1, 2.0.0, 1.1.11-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.19 | dovecot | 0, 2.0.0, 0 |
| Alpine:v3.9 | dovecot | 0, 2.0.0, 0 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | dovecot | 1.2.6-r0, 0, 1.2.11-r4 |
| Alpine:v3.14 | dovecot | 1.2.5-r0, 2.0.0, 0 |
| Alpine:v3.8 | dovecot | 1.1.11-r1, 0, 2.0.0 |
| Alpine:v3.21 | dovecot | 0, 2.0.0, 0 |
| Alpine:v3.18 | dovecot | 2.0.0, 0, 2.2.9-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.10 | dovecot | 2.2.20-r1, 2.0.0, 0 |
| Alpine:v3.13 | dovecot | 2.2.11-r0, 0, 1.1.11-r1 |
| Alpine:v3.7 | dovecot | 1.1.14-r0, 1.1.11-r1, 2.0.0 |
| Alpine:v3.12 | dovecot | 2.0.18-r0, 2.0.7-r0, 2.0.10-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | dovecot | 0, 2.0.0 |
| Alpine:v3.11 | dovecot | 0, 2.0.0, 0 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | dovecot | 0, 1.1.11-r1, 1.1.13-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.20 | dovecot | 2.2.21-r0, 2.2.9-r0, 2.2.8-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.15 | dovecot | 2.2.8-r0, 2.2.7-r0, 2.2.6-r0 |
Timeline
- Jan 25, 2018 CVE Published
- Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
- Jul 8, 2026 CVE Updated