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openSUSE Leap 42.3 Security Advisory: Dovecot22 DoS Fix Important

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2018
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Responding to a vital concern in nginx, Ubuntu has released a significant security patch to improve overall system integrity.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for dovecot22 fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2017-15130: Fixed a potential denial of service via TLS SNI config

lookups, which would slow the process down and could have led to

exhaustive memory allocation and/or process restarts (bsc#1082828)

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS Dovecot important update memory allocation openSUSE TLS SNI

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-973=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

dovecot22-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-backend-mysql-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-backend-mysql-debuginfo-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-backend-pgsql-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-backend-pgsql-debuginfo-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-backend-sqlite-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-backend-sqlite-debuginfo-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-debuginfo-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-debugsource-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-devel-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-fts-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-fts-debuginfo-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-fts-lucene-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-fts-lucene-debuginfo-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-fts-solr-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-fts-solr-debuginfo-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-fts-squat-2.2.31-2.9.1

dovecot22-fts-squat-debuginfo-2.2.31-2.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15130.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1082828

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2642-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS Dovecot important update memory allocation openSUSE TLS SNI

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