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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1218

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-1218

Description:
Argument injection vulnerability in Dovecot 1.0.x before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.rc3, when using blocking passdbs, allows remote attackers to bypass the password check via a password containing TAB characters, which are treated as argument delimiters that enable the skip_password_check field to be specified.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41085

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-593-1

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA29295
  Secunia Advisory: SA29226
  Secunia Advisory: SA29364
  Secunia Advisory: SA29385
  Secunia Advisory: SA29396
  Secunia Advisory: SA29557

MLIST
  http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html
  http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000065.html

MISC
  http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0108

MILW0RM
  http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/5257

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml

FEDORA

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516

CONFIRM

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489481/100/0/threaded

BID
  28181


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