CVE-2006-1721

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    CVE-2006-1721

    Published: 11 Apr 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070901-01-P.asc, http://secunia.com/advisories/19618, http://secunia.com/advisories/19753, http://secunia.com/advisories/19809, http://secunia.com/advisories/19825, http://secunia.com/advisories/19964, http://secunia.com/advisories/20014, http://secunia.com/advisories/22187, http://secunia.com/advisories/26708, http://secunia.com/advisories/26857, http://secunia.com/advisories/27237, http://secunia.com/advisories/30535, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1042, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:073, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_05.html, http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1306, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3852, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744, http://labs.musecurity.com/advisories/MU-200604-01.txt, http://secunia.com/advisories/19618, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17446, http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.cyrus-sasl&msg=7775, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Sep/msg00002.html, http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/044992.html, http://securitytracker.com/id?1016960, http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-426.htm, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-09.xml, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0795.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0878.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded, http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0024, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25738, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9861, https://usn.ubuntu.com/272-1/

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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