# CVE-2017-15132: A flaw was found in dovecot 2.0 up to 2.2.33 and 2.3.0.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-01-25 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- The Dovecot Project dovecot: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The Dovecot Project dovecot, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/
- https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html

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