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openSUSE Security Update : dovecot22 (openSUSE-2018-189)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106921

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for dovecot22 fixes one issue.

This security issue was fixed :

 - CVE-2017-15132: An abort of SASL authentication resulted 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 (bsc#1075608).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected dovecot22 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1075608

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106921

File Name: openSUSE-2018-189.nasl

Version: 3.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-pgsql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-sqlite-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-lucene, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-lucene-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-solr, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-solr-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-squat, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-squat-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15132