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Secunia Advisory SA25600

Mail Notification "WITH_SSL" Plaintext Password Security Issue

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SA25600

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Release Date

2007-06-11

Last Update

2007-08-10

Popularity

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Comments

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Software:

Mail Notification 3.x

Mail Notification 4.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-3209 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

Ted Percival has reported a security issue in Mail Notification, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.

If Mail Notification is compiled with "WITH_SSL" defined as 0, it's silently using unencrypted connections for an account configured with SSL/TLS. This can be exploited to disclose the password of a user by e.g. sniffing network traffic.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 3.0 and 4.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 4.1.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Ted Percival

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?20131

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428157

Deep Links
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