Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title cyrus-sasl2 security update
Informations
Name DSA-4591 First vendor Publication 2019-12-20
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2019-12-20
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.5
Base Score 7.5 Environmental Score 7.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 7.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Stephan Zeisberg reported an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the _sasl_add_string() function in cyrus-sasl2, a library implementing the Simple Authentication and Security Layer. A remote attacker can take advantage of this issue to cause denial-of-service conditions for applications using the library.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3+deb9u1.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.27+dfsg-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cyrus-sasl2 packages.

For the detailed security status of cyrus-sasl2 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/cyrus-sasl2

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4591

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
50 % CWE-193 Off-by-one Error

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2
Application 2
Application 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 189
Os 5
Os 3
Os 2
Os 4
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

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Date Informations
2020-05-23 13:03:43
  • Multiple Updates
2019-12-21 00:19:03
  • First insertion