{ "CVE_data_meta" : { "ASSIGNER" : "sfowler@redhat.com", "ID" : "CVE-2017-2669", "STATE" : "PUBLIC" }, "affects" : { "vendor" : { "vendor_data" : [ { "product" : { "product_data" : [ { "product_name" : "dovecot", "version" : { "version_data" : [ { "version_value" : "dovecot 2.2.29" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name" : "[UNKNOWN]" } ] } }, "data_format" : "MITRE", "data_type" : "CVE", "data_version" : "4.0", "description" : { "description_data" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "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." } ] }, "impact" : { "cvss" : [ [ { "vectorString" : "3.7/CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L", "version" : "3.0" } ] ] }, "problemtype" : { "problemtype_data" : [ { "description" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "CWE-20" } ] } ] }, "references" : { "reference_data" : [ { "name" : "[dovecot-news] 20170410 v2.2.29 released", "refsource" : "MLIST", "url" : "https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot-news/2017-April/000341.html" }, { "name" : "[oss-security] 20170411 CVE-2017-2669: Dovecot DoS when passdb dict was used for authentication", "refsource" : "MLIST", "url" : "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/11/1" }, { "name" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2669", "refsource" : "CONFIRM", "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2669" }, { "name" : "https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/000030feb7a30f193197f1aab8a7b04a26b42735.patch", "refsource" : "CONFIRM", "url" : "https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/000030feb7a30f193197f1aab8a7b04a26b42735.patch" }, { "name" : "DSA-3828", "refsource" : "DEBIAN", "url" : "https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3828" }, { "name" : "97536", "refsource" : "BID", "url" : "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97536" } ] } }