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CVE-2008-1218

Published: 10 March 2008

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
jdstrand
exploitable through code introduced in 1.0.11

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
dovecot
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (1.0.13)
dapper Not vulnerable
(1.0.beta3-3ubuntu5.5)
edgy Not vulnerable
(1.0.rc2-1ubuntu2.2)
feisty Not vulnerable
(1.0.rc17-1ubuntu2.2)
gutsy Not vulnerable
(1:1.0.5-1ubuntu2.1)