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FreeBSD Ports: cyrus-sasl

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following package is affected: cyrus-sasl CVE-2004-0884 The (1) libsasl and (2) libsasl2 libraries in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and earlier trust the SASL_PATH environment variable to find all available SASL plug-ins, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the SASL_PATH to point to malicious programs.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sasl/lib/common.c#rev1.104 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/92268205-1947-11d9-bc4a-000c41e2cdad.html

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