Courier Authentication Library: SQL Injection vulnerability

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200903-25 / courier-authlib
Release Date	March 11, 2009
Latest Revision	March 11, 2009: 01
Impact	normal
Exploitable	remote

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
net-libs/courier-authlib	< 0.62.2	>= 0.62.2	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #252576

Synopsis

An SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in the Courier Authentication Library.

2. Impact Information

Background

The Courier Authentication Library is a generic authentication API that encapsulates the process of validating account passwords.

Description

It has been reported that some parameters used in SQL queries are not properly sanitized before being processed when using a non-Latin locale Postgres database.

Impact

A remote attacker could send specially crafted input to an application using the library, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary SQL commands.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Courier Authentication Library users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/courier-authlib-0.62.2"

4. References

CVE-2008-2380

Page updated March 11, 2009

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