CVE-2009-0688

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-05-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus-Sasl: through 2.1.22; 1.4.1, 1.5.0, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.5, 1.5.10 (+39)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html
http://osvdb.org/54514
http://osvdb.org/54515
http://secunia.com/advisories/35094
http://secunia.com/advisories/35097
http://secunia.com/advisories/35102
http://secunia.com/advisories/35206
http://secunia.com/advisories/35239
http://secunia.com/advisories/35321
http://secunia.com/advisories/35416

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