SUSE SLES15: cyrus-sasl / cyrus-sasl-32bit / cyrus-sasl-crammd5 / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:3549-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165778

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3549-1 advisory.

- CVE-2019-19906: Fixed an out-of-bounds write that could lead to unauthenticated remote denial of service in OpenLDAP via a malformed LDAP packet (bsc#1159635).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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://bugzilla.suse.com/1159635

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19906

http://www.nessus.org/u?5a12eb9c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165778

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3549-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/8/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-digestmd5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-otp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsasl2-3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-plain, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-saslauthd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-gssapi-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsasl2-3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-sqlauxprop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-plain-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-crammd5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-crammd5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-digestmd5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cyrus-sasl-gssapi

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19906

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3549-1