CVE-2012-2124

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductSquirrelmail
PublishedJan 18, 2013
First seenJan 18, 2013

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
squirrelmail squirrelmailNo range specified—
redhat enterprise_linux4, 5—

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