Fedora: cyrus-sasl-2.1.18-2.2 update
Summary
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.
Update Information:
At application startup, libsasl and libsasl2 attempt to build a list
of all 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 privileges of a setuid or setgid
application. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
(cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-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.
* Thu Oct 07 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.1.18-2.2
- use notting's fix for incorrect patch for CAN-2004-0884 for 1.5.28
* Thu Oct 07 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2.1.18-2.1
- don't trust the environme...
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References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-331 2004-10-08 Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : cyrus-sasl Version : 2.1.18 Release : 2.2 Summary : The Cyrus SASL library. Description : 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.
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