CVE-2026-48829

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Deferred - cve@mitre.org

Published

2026-05-24

Last modified

2026-06-05

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Gnu Sasl (Gnu)

References

• https://codeberg.org/gsasl/gsasl/commit/da9b5ae2962b014879e4a406c3b38f25aa70e97a
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00182.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gsasl/2026-05/msg00000.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gsasl/2026-05/msg00002.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/06/msg00007.html