Findings

CVE-2019-19906

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.

Published Dec 19, 2019 · updated Oct 14, 2026 · cyrusimap cyrus-sasl

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.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Dec 19, 2019 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    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.

  2. Oct 14, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    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.

Affected

  • cpe apache/bookkeeper4.12.1
  • cpe apple/ipados13.6
  • cpe canonical/ubuntu linux12.04
  • cpe canonical/ubuntu linux14.04
  • cpe canonical/ubuntu linux16.04
  • cpe canonical/ubuntu linux18.04
  • cpe cyrusimap/cyrus-saslversion unspecified
  • cpe debian/debian linux10.0
  • cpe debian/debian linux8.0
  • cpe debian/debian linux9.0
  • cpe fedoraproject/fedora31
  • cpe redhat/jboss enterprise web server2.0.0

Sources

  • CVE.orgCVE-2019-19906

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • NIST NVDCVE-2019-19906

    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.

    nvd.nist.gov

References

CVE-2019-19906 · ZeroDay Findings