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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-15130): Dovecot vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-15130): Dovecot vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/02/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/06/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-dovecot-core

References

  • USN-3587-1
  • USN-3587-2
  • DSA-4130
  • CVE-2017-15130

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