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Mageia 7: MGASA-2020-0011 Moderate: Cyrus-Sasl DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2020-0025: Revamped openldap packages address vital security vulnerability from Feb 2020 impacting Mageia 7 environments.
Updated cyrus-sasl packages fix security vulnerability: Stephan Zeisberg reported an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the _sasl_add_string() function in cyrus-sasl2, a library...

Summary

Updated cyrus-sasl packages fix security vulnerability:
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 (CVE-2019-19906).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25914

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2019/msg00245.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-XXXX

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue patch cyrus-sasl denial-of-service out-of-bounds mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-1.1.mga7

Publication date: 05 Jan 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0011.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-XXXX

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue patch cyrus-sasl denial-of-service out-of-bounds mageia

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