Bug 189815

Summary: CVE-2006-1721 cyrus-sasl digest-md5 DoS
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: cyrus-saslAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Whiteboard: source=cve,reported=20060411,public=20050515,impact=moderate
Fixed In Version: cyrus-sasl-2.1.20-6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-04-24 20:37:30 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

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2006-05-05 01:48:04 UTC
cyrus-sasl-2.1.20-6 has been pushed for fc4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2006-07-25 23:41:36 UTC
This appears to have been fixed in an update earlier this year (see comment #1)
but never closed. Marking closed.