CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2124
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-01-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• squirrelmail squirrelmail
• redhat enterprise linux 4
• redhat enterprise linux 5
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0126.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51730 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/20/22 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814671 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0126.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51730 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/20/22 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814671 bugzilla.redhat.com