Details
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in the SASL
authentication library when using the DIGEST-MD5 plugin. By sending a
specially crafted realm name, a malicious SASL server could exploit
this to crash the application that uses SASL.
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in the SASL
authentication library when using the DIGEST-MD5 plugin. By sending a
specially crafted realm name, a malicious SASL server could exploit
this to crash the application that uses SASL.
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.10 breezy | libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal – | ||
| 5.04 hoary | libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal – | ||
| 4.10 warty | libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal – | ||
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