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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 21:28:47 -0700
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>, security-2012@...irrelmail.org
Subject: Re: Strange CVE situation (at least one ID should
 come of this)

* [2012-12-05 20:50:57 -0500] Josh Bressers wrote:

>> >On 10/26/2012 01:54 PM, Josh Bressers wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> This Squirrelmail plugin came to my attention a few weeks back:
>> >> http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=117
>> >>
>> >> It's from 2004, which is suspect in itself, but I took a look
>> >> after
>> >> someone asked. It's pretty scary in there.
>> >>
>> >> If I was to list the security problems I found after a few minutes
>> >> of looking, they are:
>> >>
>> >> * It uses MD5 passwords
>> >
>> >Going with this one since there's a good number of MD5 related CVE's
>> >already.
>> >
>> >Please use CVE-2012-5623 for this issue.
>>
>> Shouldn't this be a 2004 CVE, since it was fixed in 2004?
>>
>
>No, it's not fixed at all. The module would need a rather invasive rewrite
>to "fix" this. I really just wanted a CVE ID as a warning of "don't use
>this". 2004 is the last time it was updated :)
>
>Thanks.

Aha!  Sorry, I'm dense.  Thanks for the clarification.  =)

-- 
Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team 

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