CVE-2017-15132 - log back

CVE-2017-15132 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity
+ Medium
Remote
+ Remote
Type
+ Denial of service
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.
References
+ https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2018-February/000370.html
+ https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/1a29ed2f96da1be22fa5a4d96c7583aa81b8b060
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