| Name | CVE-2017-2669 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 860049 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| dovecot (PTS) | buster | 1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u6 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u7 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1 | fixed |
| trixie | 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-2 | fixed |
| sid | 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| dovecot | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| dovecot | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| dovecot | source | (unstable) | 1:2.2.27-3 | | | 860049 |
Notes
[jessie] - dovecot <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[wheezy] - dovecot <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Fixed by: https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/000030feb7a30f193197f1aab8a7b04a26b42735
Introduced by: https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/a3783f8a3c9cd816b51e77a922f82301512fcf22