Summary
The remote host is missing an update to cyrus-sasl announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:113.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:113
Insight
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 (CVE-2009-0688).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-0688 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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