Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting atheme-services package, versions <7.2.9-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-ATHEMESERVICES-310444
  • published2 Mar 2017
  • disclosed2 Mar 2017

Introduced: 2 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6384  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 atheme-services to version 7.2.9-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream atheme-services package and not the atheme-services package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Memory leak in the login_user function in saslserv/main.c in saslserv/main.so in Atheme 7.2.7 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to consume memory and cause a denial of service. This is fixed in 7.2.8.