Bug 618096 (CVE-2010-2813) - CVE-2010-2813 SquirrelMail: DoS (disk space consumption) by random IMAP login attempts with 8-bit characters in the password
Summary: CVE-2010-2813 SquirrelMail: DoS (disk space consumption) by random IMAP login...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-2813
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2010-07-26 06:16 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-24 22:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-02-09 04:47:06 UTC

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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0103 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: squirrelmail security update 2012-02-09 00:45:45 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-26 06:16:26 UTC 
A denial of service flaw was found in the way SquirrelMail processed
random login attempts with 8-bit characters in the password. A remote
attacker could use this flaw to cause the server system potentially
to run out of the hard disk space via random login attempts, causing
SquirrelMail temporarily to accept the login and create a preferences
file for the given username.

References:
  [1] http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2010-07-23

Upstream patch:
  [2] 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

Affected Versions: <= v1.4.20

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Credit:
  Issue discovered by Mikhail Goriachev
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-26 06:21:04 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the squirrelmail package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This issue has been already addressed in the versions of squirrelmail
package, which is currently present in Fedora -testing repository
(squirrelmail-1.4.21-1.fc1{2,3}).
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-26 06:22:56 UTC 
Statement:

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security
impact, a future update may address this flaw.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-08-12 04:08:03 UTC 
squirrelmail-1.4.21-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-08-12 04:11:43 UTC 
squirrelmail-1.4.21-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-08 19:47:40 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:0103 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0103.html
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