SB2022100722 - SUSE update for cyrus-sasl
Published: October 7, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022100722
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19906)
CWE-ID: CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds write
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds write error when processing LDAP queries within the _sasl_add_string() function in common.c file in cyrus-sasl. A remote non-authenticated attacker can create a specially LDAP request to the affected server, trigger off-by-one error in OpenLDAP implementation and crash the service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.