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Rocky Linux 8 : cyrus-sasl (RLSA-2020:4497)

high Nessus Plugin ID 184648

Synopsis

The remote Rocky Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2020:4497 advisory.

 - cyrus-sasl (aka Cyrus SASL) 2.1.27 has an out-of-bounds write leading to unauthenticated remote denial-of- service in OpenLDAP via a malformed LDAP packet. The OpenLDAP crash is ultimately caused by an off-by-one error in _sasl_add_string in common.c in cyrus-sasl. (CVE-2019-19906)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2020:4497

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1791854

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1817054

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1822133

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 184648

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2020-4497.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 11/6/2023

Updated: 11/6/2023

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19906

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-lib, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-scram-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-sql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-gs2, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-gssapi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-lib-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-sql, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-plain-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-ntlm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-md5, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-gssapi, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-plain, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-md5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-scram, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-ntlm, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-gs2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cyrus-sasl-ldap

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19906