| Name | CVE-2008-1218 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1516-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| dovecot (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u9 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u7 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u8 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u8 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u7 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:2.3.21.1+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| dovecot | source | sarge | (not affected) | | | |
| dovecot | source | etch | 1.0.rc15-2etch4 | | DSA-1516-1 | |
| dovecot | source | (unstable) | 1:1.0.13-1 | | | |
Notes
[etch] - dovecot <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[sarge] - dovecot <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
exploitable through code introduced in 1.0.11
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html