Re: imapd/ipop3d coredump in slackware 3.4

From: raf@licj..... (Bugtraq Mirror) (raf@licj.....)
Date: Mon Feb 02 1998 - 03:30:20 PST

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    On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Peter van Dijk wrote:
    
    > [attic bug report nr. 1]
    >
    > While fooling around a little with NIS/YP (didn't get it completely
    > working...) I ran into a bug in the imapd and ipop3d that come with
    > slackware 3.4 (if you install the pine package).
    > Earlier slackware versions will problably NOT suffer from this bug,
    > because they did not include shadowing.
    >
    > When fed an unknown username, imapd and ipop3d will dump core:
    >
    > [root@koek] /# telnet zopie 110
    > Trying 10.10.13.1...
    > Connected to zopie.attic.vuurwerk.nl.
    > Escape character is '^]'.
    > +OK zopie.attic.vuurwerk.nl POP3 3.3(20) w/IMAP2 client (Comments to MRCat_private) at Sun, 1 Feb 1998 23:45:06 +0100 (CET)
    > user root
    > +OK User name accepted, password please
    > pass linux
    > [this is not the correct password]
    > -ERR Bad login
    > user john
    > [i have no user named john]
    > +OK User name accepted, password please
    > pass doe
    > Connection closed by foreign host.
    >
    
    This does not affect slackware 3.3 (which HAS shadow !!!!!). May be a bug
    in that version of ipop3d :(
    
    root@licj:~# tn licj 110
    Trying 193.226.84.250...
    Connected to licj.soroscj.ro.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    +OK licj POP3 Server (Version 1.005h) ready at <Mon Feb 02 13:27:01 1998>
    user root
    +OK please send PASS command
    pass kaka
    -ERR invalid usercode or password, please try again
    user kkt
    +OK please send PASS command
    pass lksdghsql
    -ERR invalid usercode or password, please try again
    user raf
    +OK please send PASS command
    pass a;sdkljfh
    -ERR invalid usercode or password, please try again
    ........
    and so on.....
    
    Radu-Adrian Feurdean
    



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