Buffer overflow in Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus-Sasl
CVE-2009-0688
Multiple buffer overflows in the CMU Cyrus SASL library before 2.1.23 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via strings that are used as input to the sasl_encode64 function in lib/saslutil.c.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.082 (94.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.082 · newest: 0.082 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus-Sasl — versions 1.4.1, 1.5.0, 1.5.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- osvdb.org/54515 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/35239 (third-party-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-103B.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35321 (third-party-advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238019 (US Government Resource, Patch, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35497 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35102 (third-party-advisory)
- slackware.com/security/viewer.php (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35746 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/39428 (third-party-advisory)