Bug 252339

Summary: CVE-2006-1721 cyrus-sasl digest-md5 DoS
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: cyrus-saslAssignee: Steve Conklin <sconklin>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 3.0CC: jch
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: source=cve,reported=20060411,public=20050515,impact=moderate
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2007-0878 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2007-08-15 14:14:18 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #189814 +++

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 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-09-04 15:09:44 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-2007-0878.html