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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : dovecot (EulerOS-SA-2018-1057)

high Nessus Plugin ID 108461

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the dovecot packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - 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.(CVE-2017-15132)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected dovecot package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?11eae11a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 108461

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1057.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Published: 3/20/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:dovecot, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:dovecot-mysql, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:dovecot-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:dovecot-pigeonhole, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15132