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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-0688: Cyrus-SASL: Execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-0688: Cyrus-SASL: Execution of arbitrary code

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/15/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the CMU Cyrus SASL library before 2.1.23 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via strings that are used as input to the sasl_encode64 function in lib/saslutil.c.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-cyrus-sasl

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