ALAS2-2021-1725

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-33582  

A flaw was found in cyrus-imapd. A bad string hashing algorithm used in internal hash tables allows user inputs to be stored in predictable buckets. A user may cause a CPU denial of service by maliciously directing many inputs to a single bucket. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-33582)

ALAS2-2021-1725


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1725
Advisory Release Date: 2021-12-08 02:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-12-09 00:44 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2021-33582 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in cyrus-imapd. A bad string hashing algorithm used in internal hash tables allows user inputs to be stored in predictable buckets. A user may cause a CPU denial of service by maliciously directing many inputs to a single bucket. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-33582)


Affected Packages:

cyrus-imapd


Issue Correction:
Run yum update cyrus-imapd to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    cyrus-imapd-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    cyrus-imapd-devel-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    cyrus-imapd-utils-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    cyrus-imapd-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

i686:
    cyrus-imapd-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
    cyrus-imapd-devel-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
    cyrus-imapd-utils-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
    cyrus-imapd-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.i686

src:
    cyrus-imapd-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    cyrus-imapd-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    cyrus-imapd-devel-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    cyrus-imapd-utils-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    cyrus-imapd-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64