Re: Security alert: disable CRAM-MD5 if you don't use it

Paul J Stevens <[email protected]>
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Ok.


Good news: dbmail-3.1 is not affected. Apparently the problem only
occurs in 3.2.0 and 3.2.1. It's definitely a regression.

Bad news: if you use 3.2, you should apply the patch I pushed yesterday.
The workaround offers no real protection, as Caspar correctly surmised.



On 20-12-14 15:10, Casper Langemeijer wrote:
> I imagined the capability string only was the advertised capabilities,
> so I checked the source. Nowhere in the dbmail source I see that
> CRAM-MD5 is actually disabled, but I could be missing the location.
> Could dbmail still authenticate a malicious client?
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