CVE-2017-15132

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CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

EPSS

3%p87

Published

Jan 25, 2018 (Jan 25, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: dovecot debian canonical
Products: dovecot, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Weakness: CWE-400, CWE-772
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (3.1%)

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