DSA-4591: -1 cyrus-sasl2 -- security update

Published Dec 20, 2019
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Updated

cyrus-sasl2 - security update

Other sources

Stephan Zeisberg reported an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the sasladdstring() 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.

Affected Software

2 affected components
debian/cyrus-sasl2
debian/cyrus-sasl2

Event History

Dec 20, 2019
Advisory Published
12:00 AM

Child vulnerabilities

Contains the following vulnerabilities.

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