CVE-2009-0688 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Cyrus-sasl2

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer9 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
39.5%
top 2.69%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Debian Cyrus-sasl2Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus-sasl
Timeline
PublishedMay 15
Latest updateMay 3

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/cyrus-sasl2< cyrus-sasl2 2.1.23.dfsg1-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: ftp.andrew.cmu.edu ↗Patch: www.kb.cert.org ↗Patch: www.securityfocus.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-pjpw-9mvc-5cwc: Multiple buffer overflows in the CMU Cyrus SASL library before 2↗2022-05-03
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OSV
CVE-2009-0688: Multiple buffer overflows in the CMU Cyrus SASL library before 2↗2009-05-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Cyrus SASL vulnerability↗2009-06-24
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Debian
CVE-2009-0688: cyrus-sasl2 - Multiple buffer overflows in the CMU Cyrus SASL library before 2.1.23 might allo...↗2009
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Red Hat
cyrus-sasl: sasl_encode64() does not reliably null-terminate its output↗2008-05-15
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2009-0688 cyrus-imapd uses sasl_encode64() improperly↗2009-06-04
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Bugzilla
sendmail may use sasl_encode64() improperly↗2009-06-04
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Bugzilla
CVE-2009-0688 cyrus-sasl: sasl_encode64() does not reliably null-terminate its output↗2009-02-25
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