CVE-2009-0688

CVE Details

Release Date:	2009-05-15
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	7.5
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (cyrus-imapd)	ELSA-2009-1116	2009-06-18
Oracle Linux version 5 (cyrus-imapd)	ELSA-2009-1116	2009-06-18