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Cyrus-sasl 2.1.22 and prior [High]

By Security Team • May 15th, 2009 • Category: Security Notifications

Affects:

  • Cyrus-sasl 2.1.22 and prior [High]

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the CMU Cyrus SASL library before 2.1.23 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via strings that are used as input to the sasl_encode64 function in lib/saslutil.c.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-0688
Severity: High

National Vulnerabilities Database

NIST National Vulnerabilities Database

Related OLEX Packages: cyrus-sasl
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