Cyrus SASL DIGEST-MD5 denial of service

cyrus-sasl-digest-dos (25738) The risk level is classified as MediumMedium Risk

Description:

Carnegie Mellon University's Cyrus-SASL library is vulnerable to a denial of service caused by an undisclosed vulnerability during DIGEST-MD5 negotiation.

*CVSS:

Base Score: 7
  Access Vector: Remote
  Access Complexity: Low
  Authentication: Not Required
  Confidentiality Impact: Partial
  Integrity Impact: Partial
  Availability Impact: Partial
 
Temporal Score: 5.2
  Exploitability: Unproven
  Remediation Level: Official-Fix
  Report Confidence: Confirmed

Consequences:

Denial of Service

Remedy:

Upgrade to the latest version of Cyrus-SASL (2.1.21 or later), available from the Carnegie Mellon University's FTP site. See References.

For Debian GNU/Linux:
Refer to DSA-1042-1 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.

For Gentoo Linux:
Refer to Gentoo Linux Security Announcement GLSA 2006-04-09 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.

For Apple Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server:
Apply Apple Security Update 2006-006 or Mac OS X 10.4.8 Update, available from the Apple Web site. See References.

For SUSE Linux:
Refer to SUSE Security Announcement SUSE-SA:2006:025 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.

For other distributions:
Apply the appropriate update for your system. See References.

References:

Platforms Affected:

  • Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.9
  • Avaya Communication Manager 2.0
  • Avaya Communication Manager 2.0.1
  • Avaya Communication Manager 2.1
  • Avaya Communication Manager 2.1.1
  • Avaya Communication Manager 2.2
  • Avaya Communication Manager 2.2.1
  • Avaya Communication Manager 2.2.2
  • Avaya Communication Manager 3.0
  • Avaya Communication Manager 3.0.1
  • Avaya Communication Manager 3.1
  • Avaya Communication Manager 3.1.1
  • Avaya Communication Manager 3.1.2
  • Avaya Communication Manager 3.1.3
  • Avaya Communication Manager 3.1.4
  • Avaya Communication Manager 4.0
  • Avaya Communication Manager 4.0.1
  • Avaya Communication Manager 4.0.3
  • Avaya Expanded Meet-Me Conferencing
  • Avaya Intuity Audix LX
  • Avaya Message Networking
  • Avaya Message Storage Server 2.0
  • Avaya Message Storage Server 2.0.1
  • Avaya Message Storage Server 3.0
  • Avaya Message Storage Server 3.1
  • Canonical Ubuntu 4.10
  • Canonical Ubuntu 5.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 5.10
  • Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18
  • Debian Debian Linux 3.1
  • EMC VMware Player 2.0
  • EMC VMware Player 2.0.1
  • EMC VMware Player 2.0.2
  • EMC VMware Player 2.0.3
  • Gentoo Linux
  • MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux LE2005
  • MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux LE2005 X86_64
  • MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0
  • MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 X86_64
  • MandrakeSoft Mandrake Multi Network Firewall 2.0
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Desktop
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 AS
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 ES
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 WS
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 ES
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Desktop
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 WS
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 AS
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.5.z ES
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.5.z AS
  • SUSE SuSE Linux 9.1
  • SUSE SuSE Linux 9.2
  • SUSE SuSE Linux 9.3
  • SuSE SuSE SLES 9
  • VMware ACE 2.0
  • VMware ACE 2.0.1
  • VMware ACE 2.0.2
  • VMware ACE 2.0.3
  • VMware ESX Server 3.5
  • VMware ESXi Server 3.5
  • VMware Fusion 1.0
  • VMware Fusion 1.1
  • VMware Fusion 1.1.1
  • VMware Server 1.0
  • VMware Server 1.0.1
  • VMware Server 1.0.2
  • VMware Server 1.0.3
  • VMware Server 1.0.4
  • VMware Server 1.0.5
  • VMware Workstation 6.0
  • VMware Workstation 6.0.1
  • VMware Workstation 6.0.2

Reported:

Apr 10, 2006

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