Bug 189815 - CVE-2006-1721 cyrus-sasl digest-md5 DoS
Summary: CVE-2006-1721 cyrus-sasl digest-md5 DoS
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cyrus-sasl
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard: source=cve,reported=20060411,public=2...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-24 20:37 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: cyrus-sasl-2.1.20-6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-07-25 23:41:36 UTC
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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.
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