SB2020031962 - Fedora 31 update for cyrus-sasl



SB2020031962 - Fedora 31 update for cyrus-sasl

Published: March 19, 2020 Updated: April 25, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2020031962
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19906)

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.