Cyrus-SASL: DIGEST-MD5 Pre-Authentication Denial of Service

Cyrus-SASL: DIGEST-MD5 Pre-Authentication Denial of Service Cyrus-SASL contains a vulnerability in the DIGEST-MD5 process that could lead to a Denial of Service. cyrus-sasl 2006-04-21 2006-04-21 129523 remote 2.1.21-r2 2.1.21-r2

Cyrus-SASL is an implementation of the Simple Authentication and Security Layer.

Cyrus-SASL contains an unspecified vulnerability in the DIGEST-MD5 process that could lead to a Denial of Service.

An attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted data stream to the Cyrus-SASL server, resulting in a Denial of Service even if the attacker is not able to authenticate.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Cyrus-SASL users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-r2"

CVE-2006-1721 koon koon jaervosz