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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : cyrus-sasl (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.

 - 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://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: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/8/2022

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

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