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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-15130

A denial of service flaw was found in dovecot before 2.2.34. An attacker able to generate random SNI server names could exploit TLS SNI configuration lookups, leading to excessive memory usage and the process to restart.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:25 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-15130

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Mar 2018, 15:29 UTC

A denial of service flaw was found in dovecot before 2.2.34. An attacker able to generate random SNI server names could exploit TLS SNI configuration lookups, leading to excessive memory usage and the process to restart.

osv:CVE-2017-15130
Complete source record
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