vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15132: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jan 25, 2018 | Aug 22, 2024 | Dec 5, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 25, 2018
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-dovecot
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