Out-of-bounds Write Affecting cyrus-sasl2 package, versions <2.1.25.dfsg1-17ubuntu0.1~esm1


medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.65% (79th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
7.5 high
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SUSE
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-CYRUSSASL2-543486
  • published 19 Dec 2019
  • disclosed 19 Dec 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 cyrus-sasl2 to version 2.1.25.dfsg1-17ubuntu0.1~esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cyrus-sasl2 package and not the cyrus-sasl2 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.