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Bug 134657

Summary: CAN-2004-0884 privilege escalation
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: cyrus-saslAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 3.0CC: michal, security-response-team
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Description Josh Bressers 2004-10-05 14:24:02 UTC 
Gentoo has reported this issue via vendor-sec on 2004-10-05

Libsasl honors the environment variable SASL_PATH blindly, allowing a
local user to compile a "library" locally that is executed with the
EID of SASL when anything calls libsasl.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2004-10-05 14:41:13 UTC 
Created attachment 104781 [details]
Upstream patch
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2004-10-05 18:10:01 UTC 
*** Bug 134658 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2004-10-05 18:12:32 UTC 
This issue also affects RHEL2.1
Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2004-10-05 18:30:17 UTC 
This issue goes public on 2004-10-07
Comment 5 Mark J. Cox 2004-10-07 13:43:51 UTC 
Removing embargo
Comment 6 Josh Bressers 2004-10-07 14:51:42 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-546.html
Comment 7 Josh Bressers 2004-10-07 22:03:25 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-546.html
Comment 8 Michal Jaegermann 2004-10-12 21:31:37 UTC 
It is a bit confusing what is really in CAN-2004-0884, as it is
marked now ** RESERVED **, but Gentoo GLSA 200410-05 advisory,
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/377775/2004-10-04/2004-10-10/0
says also "Cyrus-SASL contains a remote buffer overflow in the
digestmda5.c file".  See http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11347
as well.

Somehow I do no see in the recent code patches anything which would
address that concern; or this is something new and not mentioned
by CAN-2004-0884?
Comment 9 Mark J. Cox 2004-10-12 21:36:31 UTC 
The digestmda5.c issue was separate to CAN-2004-0884 and did not
affect any version of cryus-sasl with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or
Fedora Core).