CVE-2012-0465 Information

Description

Bugzilla 3.5.x and 3.6.x before 3.6.9 3.7.x and 4.0.x before 4.0.6 and 4.1.x and 4.2.x before 4.2.1 when the inbound_proxies option is enabled does not properly validate the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header which allows remote attackers to bypass the lockout policy via a series of authentication requests with (1) different IP address strings in this header or (2) a long string in this header.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-04/0135.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079432.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079481.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079604.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728639