CVE-2026-48829
7.5 HIGHIn GNU SASL before 2.2.3, DIGEST-MD5 has a NULL pointer dereference affecting both clients and servers, via a known token with no accompa...
Published: 2026-05-24 · Last updated: 2026-06-05
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-476
Description
In GNU SASL before 2.2.3, DIGEST-MD5 has a NULL pointer dereference affecting both clients and servers, via a known token with no accompanying = character. This occurs in lib/digest-md5/getsubopt.c.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48829
- [Other]https://codeberg.org/gsasl/gsasl/commit/da9b5ae2962b014879e4a406c3b38f25aa70e97a
- [Other]https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00182.html
- [Other]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gsasl/2026-05/msg00000.html
- [Other]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gsasl/2026-05/msg00002.html
- [Other]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/06/msg00007.html
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