CVE-2017-15130
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-02 15:00
Modified
2024-09-16 20:17
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/205Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532356Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
The Dovecot Projectdovecot
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