National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-0373
Original release date:10/07/2004
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in digestmd5.c CVS release 1.170 (also referred to as digestmda5.c), as used in the DIGEST-MD5 SASL plugin for Cyrus-SASL but not in any official releases, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Cyrus SASL as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: XF
Name: cyrus-sasl-digestmda5-bo(17642)
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 11347
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [openbsd-ports] 20040717 UPDATE: cyrus-sasl-2.1.19
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2005:006
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200410-05
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sasl/plugins/digestmd5.c?rev=1.171&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sasl/plugins/digestmd5.c.diff?r1=1.170&r2=1.171
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2005:054
