CVE-2004-0884

Description

The (1) libsasl and (2) libsasl2 libraries in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and earlier trust the SASL_PATH environment variable to find all available SASL plug-ins, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the SASL_PATH to point to malicious programs.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11678

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17643

https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2137

http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0053/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11347

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:106

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-05.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-568

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-563

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-003.shtml

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-546.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110693126007214&w=2

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134657

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3