CVE-2004-0884

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Conectiva Linux

First reported 20 years ago

2005-01-27 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Conectiva Linux 9.0

9.0

Conectiva Linux 10.0

10.0

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134657

APPLE-SA-2005-03-21

20050128 [OpenPKG-SA-2005.004] OpenPKG Security Advisory (sasl)

RHSA-2004:546

P-003

DSA-563

Patch, Vendor Advisory

DSA-568

GLSA-200410-05

MDKSA-2004:106

11347

Patch, Vendor Advisory

2004-0053

FLSA:2137

cyrus-sasl-saslpath(17643)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11678

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