Medium
Security advisory
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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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-15130
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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