CVE-2004-0884

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.2
Exploit probability—
ProductCyrus Sasl
PublishedJan 27, 2005
First seenJan 27, 2005

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
cyrus sasl1.5.24, 1.5.27, 1.5.28, 2.1.9, 2.1.10, 2.1.11, 2.1.12, 2.1.13, 2.1.14, 2.1.15, 2.1.16, 2.1.17, 2.1.18, 2.1.18_r1—
conectiva linux9.0, 10.0—

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