Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| The Dovecot Project / dovecot | affected 2.0 up to 2.2.33 and 2.3.0 |
CWE
CWE-400
References
- https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/
- https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3556-2/
- https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html