Updated dovecot packages fix security vulnerability

2018-02-0609:25:44

Gentoo Foundation

advisories.mageia.org

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.009

Percentile

82.6%

JSON

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. (CVE-2017-15132).

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Mageia5noarchdovecot< 2.2.13-5.6dovecot-2.2.13-5.6.mga5
Mageia6noarchdovecot< 2.2.29.1-1.2dovecot-2.2.29.1-1.2.mga6