CVE-2026-48829

high

Description

Debian Linux - gsasl - In GNU SASL before 2.2.3, DIGEST-MD5 has a NULL pointer dereference affecting both clients and servers, via a known token with no accompanying = character. This occurs in lib/digest-md5/getsubopt.c.

References

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gsasl/2026-05/msg00002.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gsasl/2026-05/msg00000.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00182.html

https://codeberg.org/gsasl/gsasl/commit/da9b5ae2962b014879e4a406c3b38f25aa70e97a

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H