Resource Exhaustion Affecting cyrus-sasl package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.51% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-CYRUSSASL-1998261
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Nov 2019

Introduced: 28 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-19906  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 cyrus-sasl.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cyrus-sasl package and not the cyrus-sasl package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 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.

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