CVE-2009-0688
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 8.2%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 8.2% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0688)
- Published
- May 15, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0688 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
- carnegie mellon university / cyrus-sasl
References
- ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23.tar.gz(Patch)
- 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
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35497
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35746
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39428
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-09.xml
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.448834
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-259148-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264248-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-273910-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020755.1-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021699.1-1
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-184.htm
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0091
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1807
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238019(Patch, US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:113
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2010-099504.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1116.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34961(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022231
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-790-1
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-103B.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1313
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2012
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50554
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10687
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6136
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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