Buffer overflow in digestmd5.c CVS release 1.170 (also referred to as digestmda5.c), as used in the DIGEST-MD5 SASL plugin for Cyrus-SASL…

Description

Buffer overflow in digestmd5.c CVS release 1.170 (also referred to as digestmda5.c), as used in the DIGEST-MD5 SASL plugin for Cyrus-SASL but not in any official releases, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.9% · top 9.6% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• SUSE-SR:2005:006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• MDKSA-2005:054 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
• [openbsd-ports] 20040717 UPDATE: cyrus-sasl-2.1.19 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sasl/plugins/digestmd5.c?rev=1.171&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sasl/plugins/digestmd5.c.diff?r1=1.170&r2=1.171 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 11347 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• GLSA-200410-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• cyrus-sasl-digestmda5-bo(17642) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 21:13 UTC.