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dbmail: authentication bypass

Package(s):dbmail CVE #(s):CVE-2007-6714
Created:April 21, 2008 Updated:May 21, 2008
Description:

From the Gentoo advisory:

A vulnerability in DBMail's authldap module when used in conjunction with an Active Directory server has been reported by vugluskr. When passing a zero length password to the module, it tries to bind anonymously to the LDAP server. If the LDAP server allows anonymous binds, this bind succeeds and results in a successful authentication to DBMail.

By passing an empty password string to the server, an attacker could be able to log in to any account.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2008-4245 2008-05-21
Fedora FEDORA-2008-3371 2008-04-29
Fedora FEDORA-2008-3333 2008-04-29
Gentoo 200804-24 2008-04-18

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