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[DSA1042] DSA-1042-1 cyrus-sasl2

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-1042-1 cyrus-sasl2

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The Mu Security research team discovered a denial of service condition
in the Simple Authentication and Security Layer authentication library
(SASL) during DIGEST-MD5 negotiation. This potentially affects
multiple products that use SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication including
OpenLDAP, Sendmail, Postfix, etc.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.19-1.5sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.19.dfsg1-0.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your cyrus-sasl2 packages.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1042
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 17446

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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