Alpine: multiple cyrus-sasl packages, libsasl: security update to 2.1.27-r4 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400467

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=21535a76ca4f9fbf54063043b9ac68157a19fcdf

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=e20d740be6dacfa112b97d79489bcf960eb2c7f8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400467

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19906