CVE-2017-15132

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15132
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-15132.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-15132
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-01-25T20:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-15T08:50:24.442284Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/dovecot/core

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/dovecot/core
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.alpha1
1.1.alpha2
1.1.alpha4
1.1.alpha5
1.1.alpha6
1.1.beta1
1.1.beta10
1.1.beta11
1.1.beta12
1.1.beta13
1.1.beta14
1.1.beta16
1.1.beta2
1.1.beta3
1.1.beta4
1.1.beta5
1.1.beta6
1.1.beta8
1.1.beta9
1.1.rc1
1.1.rc2
1.1.rc3
1.1.rc4
1.1.rc5
1.1.rc6
1.1.rc7
1.1.rc8
1.2.alpha1
1.2.alpha2
1.2.alpha3
1.2.alpha4
1.2.alpha5
1.2.beta1
1.2.beta2
1.2.beta3
1.2.beta4
1.2.rc1

2.*

2.0.0
2.0.1
2.0.10
2.0.11
2.0.12
2.0.13
2.0.14
2.0.15
2.0.2
2.0.3
2.0.4
2.0.5
2.0.6
2.0.7
2.0.8
2.0.9
2.0.alpha1
2.0.alpha2
2.0.alpha3
2.0.beta1
2.0.beta2
2.0.beta3
2.0.beta4
2.0.beta5
2.0.beta6
2.0.rc1
2.0.rc2
2.0.rc3
2.0.rc4
2.0.rc5
2.0.rc6
2.1.0
2.1.1
2.1.10
2.1.11
2.1.12
2.1.13
2.1.14
2.1.15
2.1.16
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.1.4
2.1.5
2.1.6
2.1.7
2.1.8
2.1.9
2.1.alpha1
2.1.alpha2
2.1.beta1
2.1.rc1
2.1.rc2
2.1.rc3
2.1.rc4
2.1.rc5
2.1.rc6
2.1.rc7
2.2.0
2.2.1
2.2.10
2.2.11
2.2.12
2.2.13
2.2.13.rc1
2.2.14
2.2.14.rc1
2.2.15
2.2.16
2.2.16.rc1
2.2.17
2.2.17.rc1
2.2.17.rc2
2.2.18
2.2.19
2.2.19.rc1
2.2.19.rc2
2.2.2
2.2.20
2.2.20.rc1
2.2.3
2.2.4
2.2.5
2.2.6
2.2.7
2.2.8
2.2.9
2.2.alpha1
2.2.beta1
2.2.beta2
2.2.rc1
2.2.rc2
2.2.rc3
2.2.rc4
2.2.rc5
2.2.rc6
2.2.rc7

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "function": "auth_client_request_abort",
            "file": "src/lib-auth/auth-client-request.c"
        },
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "215630281052956561789486511243423684996",
            "length": 189.0
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060",
        "id": "CVE-2017-15132-b5687e0c",
        "signature_version": "v1"
    },
    {
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "src/lib-auth/auth-client-request.c"
        },
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "256845835522410639369354571979945330357",
                "50071296302481837651153587836823008511",
                "155824037022152075349161589285698475531",
                "309589516607185628648135646432823813963"
            ]
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060",
        "id": "CVE-2017-15132-da78e4dc",
        "signature_version": "v1"
    }
]