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

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HIGH

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

Published May 24, 2026

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.63%

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.

Affected products

Vendor GNU Product GNU Sasl Default
unaffected
- Version
  0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <2.2.3

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

GNU

GNU Sasl

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
0	affected	<2.2.3

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

References (6)

Link	Providers	Tags
https://codeberg.org/gsasl/gsasl/commit/da9b5ae2962b014879e4a406c3b38f25aa70e97a
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-31562		Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/06/msg00007.html
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