Resource Exhaustion Affecting dovecot-pigeonhole package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.28% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-DOVECOTPIGEONHOLE-1368273
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed9 Jan 2018

Introduced: 9 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-15132  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 dovecot-pigeonhole.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dovecot-pigeonhole package and not the dovecot-pigeonhole package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.