Bug 189814 (CVE-2006-1721)

Summary: CVE-2006-1721 cyrus-sasl digest-md5 DoS
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Steve Conklin <sconklin>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jch
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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2007-0795 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-04-24 20:37:16 UTC
cyrus-sasl digest-md5 DoS

A DoS during SASL authentication digest-md5 negotiation could crash an
applications authenticating using the digest-md5 feature of
cyrus-sasl.

This issue was fixed upstream in 2.1.21.

An advisory regarding this issue was published here:
http://labs.musecurity.com/advisories/MU-200604-01.txt

The note from upstream verifying the isue was fixed in 2.1.21 is here:
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.cyrus-sasl&msg=7775


This issue also affects RHEL3

Comment 2 Steve Conklin 2007-07-10 21:14:44 UTC
*** Bug 150091 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-09-04 14:49:35 UTC
An advisory 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-2007-0795.html