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Medium ALSA-2020:4497 1 CVE

Moderate: cyrus-sasl security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Nov 3, 2020 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The cyrus-sasl packages contain the Cyrus implementation of Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL). SASL is a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols.

Security Fix(es):

* cyrus-sasl: denial of service in _sasl_add_string function (CVE-2019-19906)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 cyrus-sasl-sql 2.1.27-5.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-19906