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CVE-2008-1218

Publication date 10 March 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dovecot 7.10 gutsy
Not affected
7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

jdstrand

exploitable through code introduced in 1.0.11

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-593-1
    • Dovecot vulnerabilities
    • 26 March 2008

Other references