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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15130: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 2, 2018
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-dovecot
Title
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