Description
digestmd5.c in the CMU Cyrus Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) library 2.1.18, and possibly other versions before 2.1.21, allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via malformed inputs in DIGEST-MD5 negotiation.
Published: 2006-04-11
Score: 2.6 Low
EPSS: 3.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1042-1 New Cyrus SASL packages fix denial of service
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-1721 digestmd5.c in the CMU Cyrus Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) library 2.1.18, and possibly other versions before 2.1.21, allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via malformed inputs in DIGEST-MD5 negotiation.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-272-1 cyrus-sasl2 vulnerability
References
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ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070901-01-P.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.cyrus-sasl&msg=7775 cve-icon cve-icon
http://labs.musecurity.com/advisories/MU-200604-01.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Sep/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/044992.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19618 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19753 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19809 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19825 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19964 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20014 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22187 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26708 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26857 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27237 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30535 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016960 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-426.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1042 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-09.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:073 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_05.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0795.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0878.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17446 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0024 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1306 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3852 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25738 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1721 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9861 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/272-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-1721 cve-icon
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Cyrus Sasl
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:19:49.412Z

Reserved: 2006-04-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-1721

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-04-11T23:02:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-1721

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2005-05-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-1721 - Bugzilla

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