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FreeBSD Ports: cyrus-sasl

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

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

7 years ago

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-2009-0688 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.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238019 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/14ab174c-40ef-11de-9fd5-001bd3385381.html

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)