CVE-2017-15132

Publication date

2018-01-25 20:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

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 dovecots 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.