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Secunia Advisory SA29295

Dovecot Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA29295
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Release Date 2008-03-10
Last Update 2008-03-12
   
Popularity 8,652 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Dovecot 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-1218 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Dovecot, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing passwords. This can be exploited to set values for internally processed fields via a specially crafted password containing TAB characters.

Successful exploitation allows to log in without valid user credentials.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.0.13 and 1.1.rc3.

NOTE: This affects only blocking passdbs (see vendor advisory for details).


Solution
Update to version 1.0.13.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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