CVE-2007-1558

Upstream information

CVE-2007-1558 at MITRE

Description

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. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including (1) Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and 2.x before 2.0.0.4, (2) Evolution, (3) mutt, (4) fetchmail before 6.3.8, (5) SeaMonkey 1.0.x before 1.0.9 and 1.1.x before 1.1.2, (6) Balsa 2.3.16 and earlier, (7) Mailfilter before 0.8.2, and possibly other products.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.6
Vector	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 262450 [RESOLVED / INVALID], 271197 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 279843 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 281321 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 281323 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2007:036, published Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SR:2007:014, published Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:00:00 +0000

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1	fetchmail >= 6.3.8.90-13.16.1 fetchmailconf >= 6.3.8.90-13.16.1 mutt >= 1.5.17-42.33.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA fetchmail SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA mutt
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2	fetchmail >= 6.3.8.90-13.20.19.1 fetchmailconf >= 6.3.8.90-13.20.19.1 mutt >= 1.5.17-42.33.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA fetchmail SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA mutt
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3	fetchmail >= 6.3.8.90-13.20.19.1 fetchmailconf >= 6.3.8.90-13.20.19.1 mutt >= 1.5.17-42.33.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA fetchmail SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA mutt
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4	fetchmail >= 6.3.8.90-13.20.19.1 fetchmailconf >= 6.3.8.90-13.20.19.1 mutt >= 1.5.17-42.39.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA fetchmail SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA mutt
SUSE LINUX 10.1	mutt >= 1.5.9i-27.8
Novell Linux Desktop 9 for x86	mozilla >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-cs >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.4-0.5 mozilla-deat >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.4-0.5 mozilla-devel >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-dom-inspector >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-hu >= 1.80_seamonkey_1.0.4-3 mozilla-irc >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-mail >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-venkman >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2	core9.s390 core9.x86 YOU Patch Nr: 11551
Novell Linux Desktop 9 for x86_64	mozilla >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-cs >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.4-0.5 mozilla-deat >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.4-0.5 mozilla-devel >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-dom-inspector >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-hu >= 1.80_seamonkey_1.0.4-3 mozilla-irc >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-lib64 >= 1.6-0.9 mozilla-mail >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-venkman >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2	core9.s390 core9.x86 YOU Patch Nr: 11551
Open Enterprise Server	mozilla >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-calendar >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-cs >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.4-0.5 mozilla-deat >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.4-0.5 mozilla-devel >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-dom-inspector >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-hu >= 1.80_seamonkey_1.0.4-3 mozilla-irc >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-mail >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2 mozilla-venkman >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-1.2	core9.s390 core9.x86 YOU Patch Nr: 11551
SUSE LINUX 10.1	seamonkey >= 1.0.9-1.1 seamonkey-calendar >= 1.0.9-1.1 seamonkey-dom-inspector >= 1.0.9-1.1 seamonkey-irc >= 1.0.9-1.1 seamonkey-mail >= 1.0.9-1.1 seamonkey-spellchecker >= 1.0.9-1.1 seamonkey-venkman >= 1.0.9-1.1
SUSE LINUX Retail Solution 8 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for AMD64 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM iSeries and IBM pSeries SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM zSeries SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IPF SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4 SuSE Linux School Server for i386 SuSE Linux Standard Server 8 UnitedLinux 1.0	mozilla >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-0.3 mozilla-calendar >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-0.3 mozilla-devel >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-0.3 mozilla-dom-inspector >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-0.3 mozilla-irc >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-0.3 mozilla-mail >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-0.3 mozilla-spellchecker >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-0.3 mozilla-venkman >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-0.3 mozilla-xmlterm >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-0.3	ul1.s390 slrs8.x86 YOU Patch Nr: 11547
SUSE LINUX 10.0	MozillaThunderbird >= 1.5.0.12-1.2
SUSE LINUX 10.0	mozilla >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-2.3 mozilla-calendar >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-2.3 mozilla-devel >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-2.3 mozilla-dom-inspector >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-2.3 mozilla-irc >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-2.3 mozilla-ko >= 1.75-3.3 mozilla-mail >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-2.3 mozilla-spellchecker >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-2.3 mozilla-venkman >= 1.8_seamonkey_1.0.9-2.3 mozilla-zh-CN >= 1.7-6.3 mozilla-zh-TW >= 1.7-6.3
SUSE LINUX 10.1	MozillaThunderbird >= 1.5.0.12-2.2 MozillaThunderbird-translations >= 1.5.0.12-2.2
SUSE LINUX 10.0	mutt >= 1.5.9i-10.5