Resource Exhaustion Affecting dovecot package, versions <1:2.2.34-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-DOVECOT-1544593
  • published2 Mar 2018
  • disclosed2 Mar 2018

Introduced: 2 Mar 2018

CVE-2017-15130  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 dovecot to version 1:2.2.34-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dovecot package and not the dovecot package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

A denial of service flaw was found in dovecot before 2.2.34. An attacker able to generate random SNI server names could exploit TLS SNI configuration lookups, leading to excessive memory usage and the process to restart.