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Cyrus SASL Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
Buffer overflow
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
14 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
This host has installed Cyrus SASL library and is prone to Remote Buffer Overflow vulnerability
Insight
Insight
An error in 'sasl_encode64' function within the lib/saslutil.c, as it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user supplied data before copying the data to allocated memory buffers.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Cyrus SASL version prior to 2.1.23
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to version 2.1.23 or later.