CVE-2008-1218

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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, 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)	buster	1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u6	fixed
	buster (security)	1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u7	fixed
	bullseye	1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
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