Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU11218

Resource exhaustion in Dovecot - CVE-2017-15130

Published: March 6, 2018 / Updated: March 22, 2018

Vulnerability identifier: #VU11218

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15130

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive memory usage. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash.

Dovecot
Arch Linux
Debian Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
Opensuse
dovecot (Alpine package)
dovecot

Update to versions 2.2.34 or 2.3.0.1.

dovecot (Alpine package) - update to 2.2.34-r0
dovecot - addressed in versions 2.2.34-1.fc26, 2.2.34-1.fc27, 2.2.35-1.fc26