Vulnerability CVE-2010-2813
Published: 2010-08-19   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
functions/imap_general.php in SquirrelMail before 1.4.21 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 preferences files.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Squirrelmail -> Squirrelmail 

 References:
http://squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2010-07-23
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618096
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/61124
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2080
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2070
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42399
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2091
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
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
http://secunia.com/advisories/40971
http://secunia.com/advisories/40964
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0103.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045383.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045372.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
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