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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1042-1 (cyrus-sasl2)

Information

Severity

Severity

Low

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

2.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to cyrus-sasl2 announced via advisory DSA 1042-1. 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. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.19-1.5sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.19.dfsg1-0.2. We recommend that you upgrade your cyrus-sasl2 packages. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201042-1

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