[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200809-05 ] Courier Authentication Library: SQL injection vulnerability

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200809-05

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Severity: Normal

Title: Courier Authentication Library: SQL injection vulnerability

Date: September 05, 2008

Bugs: #225407

ID: 200809-05

 

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Synopsis

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An SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in the Courier

Authentication Library.

 

Background

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The Courier Authentication Library is a generic authentication API that

encapsulates the process of vali[censored] account passwords.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 net-libs/courier-authlib < 0.60.6 >= 0.60.6

 

Description

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It has been discovered that some input (e.g. the username) passed to

the library are not properly sanitised before being used in SQL

queries.

 

Impact

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A remote attacker could provide specially crafted input to the library,

possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary SQL commands.

NOTE: Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a MySQL database

is used for authentication and that a Non-Latin character set is

selected.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All Courier Authentication Library users should upgrade to the latest

version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/courier-authlib-0.60.6"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-2667

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2667

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-05.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5