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Debian DSA-1042-1 : cyrus-sasl2 - programming error

low Nessus Plugin ID 22584

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The Mu Security research team discovered a denial of service condition in the Simple Authentication and Security Layer authentication library (SASL) during DIGEST-MD5 negotiation. This potentially affects multiple products that use SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication including OpenLDAP, Sendmail, Postfix, etc.

Solution

Upgrade the cyrus-sasl2 packages.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.19-1.5sarge1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361937

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1042

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 22584

File Name: debian_DSA-1042.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cyrus-sasl2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1721

BID: 17446

DSA: 1042