CVE-2005-0198 Information

Description

A logic error in the CRAM-MD5 code for the University of Washington IMAP (UW-IMAP) server when Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism with MD5 (CRAM-MD5) is enabled does not properly enforce all the required conditions for successful authentication which allows remote attackers to authenticate as arbitrary users.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/14057 http://secunia.com/advisories/14097 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013037 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-02.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/702777 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/CRDY-68QSL5 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:026 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-128.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12391 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11306