CVE-2007-1558

Publication date 16 April 2007

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including (1) Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and 2.x before 2.0.0.4, (2) Evolution, (3) mutt, (4) fetchmail before 6.3.8, (5) SeaMonkey 1.0.x before 1.0.9 and 1.1.x before 1.1.2, (6) Balsa 2.3.16 and earlier, (7) Mailfilter before 0.8.2, and possibly other products.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
fetchmail	7.04 feisty	Fixed 6.3.6-1ubuntu2.1
	6.10 edgy	Fixed 6.3.4-1ubuntu4.2
	6.06 LTS dapper	Fixed 6.3.2-2ubuntu2.2
iceape	7.04 feisty	Not in release
	6.10 edgy	Not in release
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release
im	7.04 feisty	Ignored
	6.10 edgy	Ignored
	6.06 LTS dapper	Ignored
mew	7.04 feisty	Ignored
	6.10 edgy	Ignored
	6.06 LTS dapper	Ignored
mew-beta	7.04 feisty	Ignored
	6.10 edgy	Ignored
	6.06 LTS dapper	Ignored
mozilla-thunderbird	7.04 feisty	Fixed 1.5.0.13-0ubuntu0.7.04
	6.10 edgy	Fixed 1.5.0.13-0ubuntu0.6.10
	6.06 LTS dapper	Fixed 1.5.0.13-0ubuntu0.6.06
wl	7.04 feisty	Ignored
	6.10 edgy	Ignored
	6.06 LTS dapper	Ignored
wl-beta	7.04 feisty	Ignored
	6.10 edgy	Ignored
	6.06 LTS dapper	Ignored

Notes

kees

This is a partial attack, not really feasible, so it okay to ignore.

jdstrand

possible fetchmail patch at http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464477/30/0/threaded

CVE-2007-1558

Status

Notes

kees

jdstrand

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