CVE-2008-1218
First published: Mon Mar 10 2008(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Dovecot Dovecot | <=1.0.12 | |
| Dovecot Dovecot | <=1.1 |
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Reference Links
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000065.html
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0108
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00358.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00381.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28181
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29295
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29226
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29364
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29385
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29396
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29557
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32151
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2341
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41085
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5257
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/593-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489481/100/0/threaded
- collector/nvd-historical
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- agent/type
- agent/softwarecombine
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- agent/references
- agent/severity
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/author
- agent/weakness
- agent/description
- agent/tags
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/event
- agent/source
- vendor/dovecot
- canonical/dovecot dovecot
- version/dovecot dovecot/1.0.12
- version/dovecot dovecot/1.1