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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 v3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.16dovecot2.2.9-r0, 0, 1.1.14-r1
Alpine:v3.17dovecot2.2.9-r0, 2.2.8-r0, 2.2.7-r0
Alpine:v3.19dovecot2.0.12-r1, 2.2.9-r0, 2.2.8-r0
Alpine:v3.9dovecot0, 2.2.9-r0, 2.2.8-r0
Alpine:v3.23dovecot1.2.6-r0, 0, 1.2.11-r4
Alpine:v3.14dovecot0, 2.2.9-r0, 2.2.8-r0
Alpine:v3.8dovecot2.2.8-r0, 0, 1.1.11-r0
Alpine:v3.21dovecot2.2.9-r0, 2.2.8-r0, 2.2.7-r0
Alpine:v3.18dovecot2.2.3-r0, 2.2.9-r0, 2.2.8-r0
Alpine:v3.10dovecot2.2.9-r0, 2.2.8-r0, 2.2.7-r0
Alpine:v3.13dovecot2.2.10-r0, 0, 1.1.11-r1
Alpine:v3.7dovecot2.0.9-r1, 2.0.9-r0, 2.0.8-r0
Alpine:v3.12dovecot1.2.12-r3, 1.2.12-r2, 1.2.12-r1
Alpine:v3.11dovecot2.2.9-r0, 2.2.8-r0, 2.2.7-r0
Alpine:v3.22dovecot1.1.11-r0, 1.1.11-r1, 1.1.13-r0
Alpine:v3.20dovecot2.2.22-r1, 2.2.9-r0, 2.2.8-r0
Alpine:v3.15dovecot2.2.9-r0, 2.2.8-r0, 2.2.7-r0

Timeline

  • Jan 25, 2018 CVE Published
  • Dec 3, 2025 CVE Updated
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
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