Alpine: multiple cyrus-sasl packages, libsasl: security update to 2.1.26-r6 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 401015

Description

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

- Cyrus SASL 2.1.23, 2.1.26, and earlier does not properly handle when a NULL value is returned upon an
error by the crypt function as implemented in glibc 2.17 and later, which allows remote attackers to cause
a denial of service (thread crash and consumption) via (1) an invalid salt or, when FIPS-140 is enabled, a
(2) DES or (3) MD5 encrypted password, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. (CVE-2013-4122)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401015

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4122

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: 11/10/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4122

BID: 61164

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