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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/23/4 Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-sasl/issues/587 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4256-1/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/23/4 Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-sasl/issues/587 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4256-1/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · cyrusimap, debian, canonicalNVD modified 2026-10-14 08:16
Affected (CPE criteria) 52
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References 31
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jul/23 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jul/24 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/23/4 Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
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- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
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- https://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=9123 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jul/23 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/23/4 Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-sasl/issues/587 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OB4GSVOJ6ESHQNT5GSV63OX5D4KPSTGT/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/42 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211288 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211289 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4256-1/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4591 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=9123 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html