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RHSA-2004-546: cyrus Vulnerability Scan


Vulnerability Scan Summary
Check for the version of the cyrus packages

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Test


Updated cyrus-sasl packages that fix a setuid and setgid application
vulnerability are now available.

[Updated 7th October 2004]
Revised cryus-sasl packages have been added for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

the patch in the previous packages broke interaction with ldap.

The cyrus-sasl package contains the Cyrus implementation of SASL. SASL is
the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding
authentication support to connection-based protocols.

At application startup, libsasl and libsasl2 attempts to build a list
of all available SASL plug-ins which are available on the system. To do
so, the libraries search for and attempt to load every shared library found
within the plug-in directory. This location can be set with the SASL_PATH
environment variable.

In situations where an untrusted local user can affect the environment of a
privileged process, this behavior could be exploited to run arbitrary code
with the rights of a setuid or setgid application. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name
CVE-2004-0884 to this issue.

Users of cyrus-sasl should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches and are not vulnerable to this issue.




Solution : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-546.html
Threat Level: High

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