CVE-2008-1218 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29226 http://secunia.com/advisories/29295 http://secunia.com/advisories/29364 http://secunia.com/advisories/29385 http://secunia.com/advisories/29396 http://secunia.com/advisories/29557 http://secunia.com/advisories/32151 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0108 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516 http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000065.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489481/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28181 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41085 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2341 https://usn.ubuntu.com/593-1/ https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5257 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00358.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00381.html