[Secure-testing-team] Bug#716835: cyrus-sasl2: CVE-2013-4122: NULL pointer dereference

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Package: cyrus-sasl2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream patch

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for cyrus-sasl2.

CVE-2013-4122[0]:
cyrus-sasl NULL ptr. dereference

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

Upstream patch is at [1].

For further information see:

[0] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4122
[1] http://git.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/commit/?id=dedad73e5e7a75d01a5f3d5a6702ab8ccd2ff40d

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

(This is an issue with eglibc starting from 2.17).

Regards,
Salvatore