vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-92b8b284-a3a2-41b1-956c-f9cf8b74f500 (CVE-2017-15132): dovecot -- abort of SASL authentication results in a memory leak
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jan 26, 2018 | Jan 27, 2018 | Dec 10, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 26, 2018
Added
Jan 27, 2018
Modified
Dec 10, 2025
Description
Pedro Sampaio reports: A flaw was found in dovecot 2.0 up to 2.2.33 and 2.3.0. A abort of SASL authentication results in a memory leak in Dovecot 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
freebsd-upgrade-package-dovecot
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