CVE-2017-2669 (GCVE-0-2017-2669)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-21 13:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:02
VLAI?
Summary
Dovecot before version 2.2.29 is vulnerable to a denial of service. When 'dict' passdb and userdb were used for user authentication, the username sent by the IMAP/POP3 client was sent through var_expand() to perform %variable expansion. Sending specially crafted %variable fields could result in excessive memory usage causing the process to crash (and restart), or excessive CPU usage causing all authentications to hang.
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