7.5

CVE-2017-15132: canonical ubuntu_linux Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2017-15132MGASA-2018-0114SUSE-SU-2018:0466-1
Published 25-01-2018Last modified 17-09-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-15132 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in canonical ubuntu_linux. EPSS estimates a 3.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.12%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 2
DLA-1333-1DSA-4130-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10726-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14715-1

Timeline

  1. 25-01-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 17-09-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A flaw was found in dovecot 2.0 up to 2.2.33 and 2.3.0. 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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

3.12%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

88%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.12% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
3.12%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Suse7 products
  • dovecot22&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2< 2.2.31-19.5.1
  • dovecot22&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3< 2.2.31-19.5.1
  • dovecot22&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2< 2.2.31-19.5.1
  • dovecot22&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2< 2.2.31-19.5.1
  • dovecot22&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3< 2.2.31-19.5.1
Debian2 products
Mageia2 products
  • dovecot< 2.2.13-5.6.mga5
  • dovecot< 2.2.29.1-1.2.mga6
Alpine1 product
  • dovecot≥ 2.0.0, < 2.3.1-r0 | ≥ 2.0.0, < 2.2.34-r0
Canonical1 product
Dovecot1 product
  • dovecot≥ 2.0.0, ≤ 2.2.33 | 2.3.0
The dovecot project1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • dovecot< 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.3 | < 1:2.2.22-1ubuntu2.6

8 vendors · 16 products

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