SASL 2.1.27 rc8

Ken Murchison murch at fastmail.com
Tue Sep 18 10:10:56 EDT 2018


I want to get 2.1.27 released this week, but I'm not sure where we stand 
with the GSSAPI stuff, and since I'm no longer at CMU, I don't have a 
Kerberos infrastructure to test with.

So, I need someone to summarize the existing problem(s) and solution(s), 
preferably with a pull request or patch.


On 5/10/18 8:28 PM, Ken Murchison wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I have built a eighth (and hopefully last) release candidate of SASL 
> 2.1.27 which can be downloaded from here:
>
> * HTTP:
>
>      https://www.cyrusimap.org/releases/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc8.tar.gz
>      https://www.cyrusimap.org/releases/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc8.tar.gz.sig
>
> * FTP:
>
>      ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc8.tar.gz
>      ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-rc8.tar.gz.sig
>
>
> The primary reason for this candidate is to revert the GSSAPI flag 
> changes.  I'd like to roll out the final release early next week, so 
> please test this RC as soon as possible.
>
>
> The (mostly) complete list of changes from 2.1.26 are these:
>
>   * Added support for OpenSSL 1.1
>   * Added support for lmdb (from Howard Chu)
>   * Lots of build fixes (from Ignacio Casal Quinteiro and others)
>   * Treat SCRAM and DIGEST-MD5 as more secure than PLAIN when
>     selecting client mech
>   * DIGEST-MD5 plugin:
>       o Fixed memory leaks
>       o Fixed a segfault when looking for non-existent reauth cache
>       o Prevent client from going from step 3 back to step 2
>       o Allow cmusaslsecretDIGEST-MD5 property to be disabled
>   * GSSAPI plugin:
>       o Added support for retrieving negotiated SSF
>       o Properly compute maxbufsize AFTER security layers have been set
>   * SCRAM plugin:
>       o Added support for SCRAM-SHA-256
>       o Allow SCRAM-* to be used by HTTP
>   * LOGIN plugin:
>       o Don’t prompt client for password until requested by server
>   * NTLM plugin:
>       o Fixed crash due to uninitialized HMAC context
>   * saslauthd:
>       o cache.c:
>           + Don’t use cached credentials if timeout has expired
>           + Fixed debug logging output
>       o ipc_doors.c:
>           + Fixed potential DoS attack (from Oracle)
>       o ipc_unix.c:
>           + Prevent premature closing of socket
>       o auth_rimap.c:
>           + Added support LOGOUT command
>           + Added support for unsolicited CAPABILITY responses in
>             LOGIN reply
>           + Properly detect end of responses (don’t needlessly wait)
>           + Properly handle backslash in passwords
>       o auth_httpform:
>           + Fix off-by-one error in string termination
>           + Added support for 204 success response
>       o auth_krb5.c:
>           + Added krb5_conv_krb4_instance option
>           + Added more verbose error logging
>
>
>
> At this point any major changes (e.g. API, wire protocol) will be 
> pushed out to 2.1.28 or 2.2.0.
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Murchison
> Cyrus Development Team
> FastMail Pty Ltd

-- 
Ken Murchison
Cyrus Development Team
FastMail US LLC

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