DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15132

DEBIAN-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
Debian:14	dovecot	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	dovecot	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	dovecot	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	dovecot	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Jan 25, 2018 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15132 advisory

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