[ MDVSA-2009:113 ] cyrus-sasl

[dude67]

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Package : cyrus-sasl
Date : May 18, 2009
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0,
Multi Network Firewall 2.0
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Problem 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 (CVE-2009-0688).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-0688
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