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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56663
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1042-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'cyrus-sasl2' package(s) announced via the DSA-1042-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'cyrus-sasl2' package(s) announced via the DSA-1042-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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.

Affected Software/OS:
'cyrus-sasl2' package(s) on Debian 3.1.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
2.6

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-1721
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Sep/msg00002.html
BugTraq ID: 17446
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17446
Bugtraq: 20080604 VMSA-2008-0009 Updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Fusion, VMware Server, VMware VIX API, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi resolve critical security issues (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1042 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1042
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/044992.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-09.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:073
http://labs.musecurity.com/advisories/MU-200604-01.txt
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9861
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0795.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0878.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016960
http://secunia.com/advisories/19618
http://secunia.com/advisories/19753
http://secunia.com/advisories/19809
http://secunia.com/advisories/19825
http://secunia.com/advisories/19964
http://secunia.com/advisories/20014
http://secunia.com/advisories/22187
http://secunia.com/advisories/26708
http://secunia.com/advisories/26857
http://secunia.com/advisories/27237
http://secunia.com/advisories/30535
SGI Security Advisory: 20070901-01-P
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070901-01-P.asc
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2006:025 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_05.html
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0024
https://usn.ubuntu.com/272-1/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1306
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3852
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744
XForce ISS Database: cyrus-sasl-digest-dos(25738)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25738
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