| 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 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| salt | source | buster | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| salt | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | 1051504 |
[buster] - salt <end-of-life> (EOL in buster LTS)
https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/64061