CVE-2023-20897

Name	CVE-2023-20897
Description	Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2 contain a DOS in minion return. After receiving several bad packets on the request server equal to the number of worker threads, the master will become unresponsive to return requests until restarted.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1051504

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
salt (PTS)	buster, buster (security)	2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3	vulnerable
	bullseye, bullseye (security)	3002.6+dfsg1-4+deb11u1	vulnerable
	sid	3004.1+dfsg-2.2	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
salt	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)			1051504

https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/