CVE-2017-2669

Description

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3828

https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/000030feb7a30f193197f1aab8a7b04a26b42735.patch

https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2017-April/000341.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2669

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97536

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/11/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3