CVE-2017-15132

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-15132
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-01-25T20:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-09T23:24:15
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-772 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/772.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.0.0 2.2.33
cpe:2.3:a:dovecot:dovecot:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patch Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130 Third Party Advisory
https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html Vendor Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/ Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15132
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15132
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:11:15 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 01:30:27 2018-01-25T20:29Z 2018-01-25T20:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 01:30:27 2019-10-09T23:24:15 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 01:30:27 Modified Vulnerability Status updated