New cyrus-sasl-mit packages has been released for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 568-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
October 16th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : cyrus-sasl-mit
Vulnerability : unsanitised input
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2004-0884
Debian Bug : 275498

A vulnerability has been discovered in the Cyrus implementation of the SASL library, the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols. The library honors the environment variable SASL_PATH blindly, which allows a local user to link against a malicious library to run arbitrary code with the privileges of a setuid or setgid application.

The MIT version of the Cyrus implementation of the SASL library provides bindings against MIT GSSAPI and MIT Kerberos4.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.24-15woody3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your libsasl packages.



Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/cyrus-sasl-mit_1.5.24-15woody3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 737 c28b9688bbb9de9f920594ba8ac2b9d5
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/cyrus-sasl-mit_1.5.24-15woody3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 125280 324fed374135082dce487d78f46db72f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/cyrus-sasl-mit_1.5.24.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 494457 ac3837c071c258b80021325936db2583

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-gssapi-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 38780 daa298d1425c5381e5d223c04fd16312
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-krb4-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 30282 d6b4f4eb7a96a320094ea8ff698a68bd

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-gssapi-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 37270 85d60315293f4115f5b8469262a8e839
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-krb4-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 28368 834ab3c7b7db63e7b6420986ecbcfe02

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-gssapi-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 37012 0a70a5abb8a75f9407a492f7342360be
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-krb4-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 28188 8e472ccc4076d9ce7596363e53c4401f

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-gssapi-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 41274 fa2ef8e398ca8c1cf733ea86f017a8ea
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-krb4-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 32360 4933dc10dcc21dd22968a7eb9ecee6a7

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-gssapi-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 38502 07c04f8e1709650cfc8a9dcf06dcca82
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-krb4-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 29204 fa6282350f600ab5aacc0cdc9c1ee808

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-gssapi-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 36788 bad1e3f4176662fba63453703e211257
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-krb4-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 27630 628baec08c7e6a80aff4488a51f02cad

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-gssapi-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 37782 c2f35e650480997a46e5b4c1cc296e7e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-krb4-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 28908 ff69ef3da95dbfd5cf864ade8dac62f0

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-gssapi-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 37832 b31c15dd670ad1904774a57dd095f415
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-krb4-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 29040 bc88918a756dd4377b48be517ccea2a7

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-gssapi-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 37638 7396523c424cd0b03d58d63e7ca536cb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-krb4-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 28244 7e39eabb00f2233e62e7bdefca914700

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-gssapi-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 37572 c9e5305655d96d335c215b4536c0f32f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-krb4-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 28434 ff0cff9f384c417691d0203514c36b73

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-gssapi-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 36976 ab2a53ba08000123584eb0ccbaeeb07f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-sasl-mit/libsasl-krb4-mit_1.5.24-15woody3_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 27950 abd92b81a11ac1bdd3cc585c961b3ba6


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update.