Description
The (1) libsasl and (2) libsasl2 libraries in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and earlier trust the SASL_PATH environment variable to find all available SASL plug-ins, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the SASL_PATH to point to malicious programs.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134657 ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110693126007214&w=2 ↗
- http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0053/ ↗
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-003.shtml ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:106 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-568 ↗
- https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2137 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-563 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17643 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11678 ↗
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11347 ↗
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-05.xml ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-546.html ↗