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CVE-2009-0688

Published: May 15, 2009Updated: Apr 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-119
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
8.2%
Top 5.9%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:NC:PI:PA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:PConfidentiality
Partial
I:PIntegrity
Partial
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected Products

cyrus-saslcarnegie mellon university
On-prem
Communications / email-server-client
n/an/a
Debian GNU/LinuxСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
carnegie mellon universityoss-projectUSCommunicationsaka cyrus imap server, cyrus-sasl, snmptrapd
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf

Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
Privilege Escalation
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References

ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23.tar.gz
ftp.andrew.cmu.edu
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
lists.apple.com
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org
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Timeline

Published
May 15, 2009
Last Updated
Apr 23, 2026

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