2.6 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.073 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.1%
The Mu Security research team discovered a denial of service condition in the Simple Authentication and Security Layer authentication library (SASL) during DIGEST-MD5 negotiation. This potentially affects multiple products that use SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication including OpenLDAP, Sendmail, Postfix, etc.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1042. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(22584);
script_version("1.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2006-1721");
script_bugtraq_id(17446);
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1042");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1042-1 : cyrus-sasl2 - programming error");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The Mu Security research team discovered a denial of service condition
in the Simple Authentication and Security Layer authentication library
(SASL) during DIGEST-MD5 negotiation. This potentially affects
multiple products that use SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication including
OpenLDAP, Sendmail, Postfix, etc."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361937"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1042"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the cyrus-sasl2 packages.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.19-1.5sarge1."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cyrus-sasl2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/04/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/10/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/04/07");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libsasl2", reference:"2.1.19-1.5sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libsasl2-dev", reference:"2.1.19-1.5sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libsasl2-modules", reference:"2.1.19-1.5sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal", reference:"2.1.19-1.5sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libsasl2-modules-kerberos-heimdal", reference:"2.1.19-1.5sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libsasl2-modules-sql", reference:"2.1.19-1.5sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"sasl2-bin", reference:"2.1.19-1.5sarge1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_note(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | cyrus-sasl2 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cyrus-sasl2 |
debian | debian_linux | 3.1 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1 |