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cyrus-sasl2 vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
- Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
Summary
Cyrus SASL could be made to crash or execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted LDAP packet.
Software Description
- cyrus-sasl2 - Cyrus Simple Authentication and Security Layer
Details
It was discovered that Cyrus SASL incorrectly handled certain LDAP packets. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 19.10
- libsasl2-2 - 2.1.27+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- libsasl2-2 - 2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3ubuntu2.1
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libsasl2-2 - 2.1.26.dfsg1-14ubuntu0.2
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
- libsasl2-2 - 2.1.25.dfsg1-17ubuntu0.1~esm1
- Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
- libsasl2-2 - 2.1.25.dfsg1-3ubuntu0.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart services using SASL to effect the necessary changes.