CVE-2012-2124 Information

Description

functions/imap_general.php in SquirrelMail as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 and 5 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 preference files. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-2813.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0126.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51730 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/20/22 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814671