Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 2, 2018· Updated Sep 16, 2024
CVE-2017-15130
CVE-2017-15130
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.
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Affected products
15- Range: <2.2.34
- osv-coords13 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/dovecot23&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/dovecot24&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/dovecot22&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%204pkg:rpm/suse/dovecot22&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/dovecot22&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/dovecot22&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/dovecot22&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/dovecot22&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/dovecot22&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/dovecot22&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/dovecot22&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/dovecot22&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/dovecot22&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207
< 2.3.16-1.6+ 12 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.16-1.6
- (no CPE)range: < 2.4.0-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.31-19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.31-19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.31-19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.31-19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.31-19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.31-19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.31-19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.31-19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.31-19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.31-19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.2.31-19.11.1
- The Dovecot Project/dovecotv5Range: before 2.2.34
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
No source-code context for this CVE — mechanics is only generated when we can read the actual fix diff. Without that, the four sections (root cause, attack vector, affected code, fix) would be speculation rather than analysis.
References
7- usn.ubuntu.com/3587-1/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- usn.ubuntu.com/3587-2/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4130mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/205mitremailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00036.htmlmitremailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.htmlmitremailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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