CVE-2005-1824 Information

Description

The sql_escape_string function in auth/sql.c for the mailutils SQL authentication module does not properly quote the \\ (backslash) character which is used as an escape character and makes the module vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308031 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-02.xml