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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-19906: Moderate: cyrus-sasl security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4497)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-19906: Moderate: cyrus-sasl security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4497)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/19/2019
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

cyrus-sasl (aka Cyrus SASL) 2.1.27 has an out-of-bounds write leading to unauthenticated remote denial-of-service in OpenLDAP via a malformed LDAP packet. The OpenLDAP crash is ultimately caused by an off-by-one error in _sasl_add_string in common.c in cyrus-sasl.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-cyrus-sasl-sql

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