CVE-2012-2124

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SquirrelMail versions (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the handling of 8-bit characters in passwords by the functions/imap general.php file in SquirrelMail. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically disk consumption, by making multiple IMAP login attempts with different usernames. This results in the creation of numerous preference files.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.