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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:48:13 -0800
From: Jonathan Smith <smithj@...ethemallocs.com>
To:  oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: dovecot unauthorized login

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Steven M. Christey wrote:
| I wrote this up as 1.0.x instead of 1.0.11 (skip_password_check's
| introduction) since (perhaps) other fields could be inserted to do
| something bad.
|
| ======================================================
| Name: CVE-2008-1271
| Status: Candidate
| URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1271
| Reference: MLIST:[Dovecot-news] 20080309 v1.0.13 and v1.1.rc3 released
| Reference:
URL:http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000065.html
| Reference: MLIST:[Dovecot-news] 20080309 Security hole #6: Some
passdbs allowed users to log in without a valid password
| Reference:
URL:http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html
|
| 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.

So, we shouldn't be using CVE-2008-1218 for this (as you indicated
yesterday)?

	smithj

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