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cyrus-sasl: denial of service

Package(s):cyrus-sasl CVE #(s):CVE-2013-4122
Created:September 3, 2013 Updated:September 5, 2013
Description: From the Gentoo advisory:

In the GNU C Library (glibc) from version 2.17 onwards, the crypt() function call can return NULL when the salt violates specifications or the system is in FIPS-140 mode and a DES or MD5 hashed password is passed. When Cyrus-SASL's authentication mechanisms call crypt(), a NULL may be returned.

A remote attacker could trigger this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Alerts:
Gentoo 201309-01 2013-09-01

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