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Bug 175021 - mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird{-bin} APOP design error (CVE-2007-1558)
Summary: mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird{-bin} APOP design error (CVE-2007-1558)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 180436
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename....
Whiteboard: B3? [upstream] jaervosz
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Reported: 2007-04-18 05:24 UTC by Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED)
Modified: 2007-05-31 11:11 UTC (History)
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Description Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-18 05:24:19 UTC 
The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions.
Comment 1 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-02 11:16:38 UTC 
mozilla any news on this one?
Comment 2 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-02 12:44:59 UTC 
Upstream seems to ignore this bug. No distro has issued a security advisory.
Comment 3 Bugs Bunny 2007-05-06 02:23:48 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> mozilla any news on this one?
> 

This is such a minute issue that upstream is not gonna bother with it. Reason being that every user should know that a 3 letter password is shit to begin with, and the fact that is the first three characters give up the actuall password the users should be compromised.
Comment 4 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-06 09:49:42 UTC 
Passwords don't need to be of 3 characters length or less to be affected by this. Brute force and dictionary attacks would be much easier.
Comment 5 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-31 11:11:38 UTC 
This is being handled in bug 180436

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 180436 ***