vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2017-15132)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 25, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in dovecot before 2.2.34 and 2.3.0.1. 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.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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