CVE-2010-2813 Information

Description

functions/imap_general.php in SquirrelMail before 1.4.21 does not properly handle 8-bit characters in passwords which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by making many IMAP login attempts with different usernames leading to the creation of many preferences files.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045372.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045383.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0103.html http://secunia.com/advisories/40964 http://secunia.com/advisories/40971 http://squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2010-07-23 http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php?view=patch&r1=13972&r2=13971&pathrev=13972 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2091 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42399 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2070 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2080 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618096 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61124