Updated cyrus-sasl packages that correct a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
The cyrus-sasl package contains the Cyrus implementation of SASL. SASL is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols.
A bug was found in cyrus-sasl’s DIGEST-MD5 authentication mechanism.
As part of the DIGEST-MD5 authentication exchange, the client is expected to send a specific set of information to the server. If one of these items (the ‘realm’) was not sent or was malformed, it was possible for a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) on the server. (CVE-2006-1721)
Users of cyrus-sasl should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0878 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0878 respectively.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(25973);
script_version("1.14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2006-1721");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2007:0878");
script_name(english:"CentOS 3 : cyrus-sasl (CESA-2007:0878)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Updated cyrus-sasl packages that correct a security issue are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The cyrus-sasl package contains the Cyrus implementation of SASL. SASL
is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding
authentication support to connection-based protocols.
A bug was found in cyrus-sasl's DIGEST-MD5 authentication mechanism.
As part of the DIGEST-MD5 authentication exchange, the client is
expected to send a specific set of information to the server. If one
of these items (the 'realm') was not sent or was malformed, it was
possible for a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of
service (segmentation fault) on the server. (CVE-2006-1721)
Users of cyrus-sasl should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue."
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/014164.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?fc9ceb2c"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/014165.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?63b96831"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/014166.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f2bb30b2"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected cyrus-sasl packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-gssapi");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-md5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-plain");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/04/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/09/04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/09/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^3([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 3.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && "ia64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"cyrus-sasl-2.1.15-15")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.15-15")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.15-15")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.15-15")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.15-15")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_NOTE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "cyrus-sasl / cyrus-sasl-devel / cyrus-sasl-gssapi / cyrus-sasl-md5 / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
centos | centos | cyrus-sasl | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl |
centos | centos | cyrus-sasl-devel | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-devel |
centos | centos | cyrus-sasl-gssapi | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-gssapi |
centos | centos | cyrus-sasl-md5 | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-md5 |
centos | centos | cyrus-sasl-plain | p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cyrus-sasl-plain |
centos | centos | 3 | cpe:/o:centos:centos:3 |