USN-272-1: cyrus-sasl2 vulnerability
24 April 2006
cyrus-sasl2 vulnerability
Releases
Details
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in the SASL
authentication library when using the DIGEST-MD5 plugin. By sending a
specially crafted realm name, a malicious SASL server could exploit
this to crash the application that uses SASL.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 5.10
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libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal
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Ubuntu 5.04
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libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal
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Ubuntu 4.10
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libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal
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In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.