Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title cyrus-sasl2 security update
Informations
Name DSA-3368 First vendor Publication 2015-09-25
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2015-09-25
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

It was discovered that cyrus-sasl2, a library implementing the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, does not properly handle certain invalid password salts. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.26.dfsg1-13+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.26.dfsg1-14.

We recommend that you upgrade your cyrus-sasl2 packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3368

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19157
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19157
Title: USN-1988-1 -- cyrus-sasl2 vulnerability
Description: Cyrus SASL could be made to crash if it processed specially crafted input.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1988-1
CVE-2013-4122
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 13.04
Product(s): cyrus-sasl2
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-10-01 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2755-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-28 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3368.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-12 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2014-338.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1988-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-02 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201309-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2015-09-29 13:24:43
  • Multiple Updates
2015-09-25 21:21:56
  • First insertion