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dovecot -- abort of SASL authentication results in a memory leak

Affected packages
2.0	<	dovecot	<=	2.2.33.2_3
2.3	<=	dovecot	<=	2.3.0

Details

VuXML ID	92b8b284-a3a2-41b1-956c-f9cf8b74f500
Discovery	2018-01-09
Entry	2018-01-26
Modified	2018-02-01

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.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2017-15132
URL	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532768
URL	https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060.patch