CVE-2017-2669

Published: 10 April 2017

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.

Notes

Author	Note
tyhicks	Vulnerable versions: 2.2.26 - 2.2.28

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
dovecot Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Not vulnerable
	trusty	Not vulnerable (1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1)
	upstream	Needed
	xenial	Not vulnerable
	yakkety	Not vulnerable (1:2.2.24-1ubuntu1.3)
	Patches: upstream: https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/000030feb7a30f193197f1aab8a7b04a26b42735

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