CVE-2004-0884: Conectiva Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) libsasl and (2) libsasl2 libraries in Cyrus-SASL 2.1.18 and earlier trust the SASL_PATH environment variable to find all available SASL plug-ins, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the SASL_PATH to point to malicious programs.

Affected products

• Conectiva Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Cyrus Sasl: version 1.5.24 only; version 1.5.27 only; version 1.5.28 only; version 2.1.9 only; version 2.1.10 only; version 2.1.11 only; …

Published 2005-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.