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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-19906: cyrus-sasl Off by one in _sasl_add_string function

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-19906: cyrus-sasl Off by one in _sasl_add_string function

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/19/2019
Created
12/28/2019
Added
12/27/2019
Modified
04/09/2024

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)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-cyrus-sasl

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