Bug 504207 - CVE-2009-0688 cyrus-imapd uses sasl_encode64() improperly
Summary: CVE-2009-0688 cyrus-imapd uses sasl_encode64() improperly
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 505425 505426 505427 505428
Blocks: CVE-2009-0688
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Reported: 2009-06-04 19:11 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-03-29 09:17:15 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:1116 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: cyrus-imapd security update 2009-06-18 17:34:54 UTC

Description Vincent Danen 2009-06-04 19:11:03 UTC 
An issue was reported in how cyrus-sasl did not reliably terminate its output from the sasl_encode64() function.  During an audit of programs that use sasl_encode64(), it was found that cyrus-imapd just allocates a large output buffer without any appropriate checks against the size of the input buffer.  The strings in question are not used for anything odd; they are simply copied elsewhere.  This means that we are going to see a crash, leaking some memory to the server, or auth failures.

More information on the issue as originally reported against cyrus-sasl (CVE-2009-0688) is available in bug #487251.
Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2009-06-18 17:35:10 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1116 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1116.html
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