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Bug 858848 (CVE-2022-2469)

Summary: <net-misc/gsasl-2.0.1: Out of bounds read
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Sam James <sam>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: IN_PROGRESS ---    
Severity: minor CC: maintainer-needed
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa? cleanup]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 853631, 853634, 853637    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-07-18 18:04:47 UTC
From https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-07/msg00003.html:
"""
** GSSAPI server: Fix out-of-bounds read.
A malicious client can after it has authenticated with Kerberos send a
specially crafted message that causes Libgsasl to read out of bounds
and cause a crash in the server.
"""