Re: Strange CVE situation (at least one ID should come of this)

[Vincent Danen <vdanen () redhat com>]

* [2012-12-05 20:50:57 -0500] Josh Bressers wrote:

> > >On 10/26/2012 01:54 PM, Josh Bressers wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> This Squirrelmail plugin came to my attention a few weeks back:
> > >> http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=117
> > >>
> > >> It's from 2004, which is suspect in itself, but I took a look
> > >> after
> > >> someone asked. It's pretty scary in there.
> > >>
> > >> If I was to list the security problems I found after a few minutes
> > >> of looking, they are:
> > >>
> > >> * It uses MD5 passwords
> > >
> > >Going with this one since there's a good number of MD5 related CVE's
> > >already.
> > >
> > >Please use CVE-2012-5623 for this issue.
> >
> > Shouldn't this be a 2004 CVE, since it was fixed in 2004?
>
> No, it's not fixed at all. The module would need a rather invasive rewrite
> to "fix" this. I really just wanted a CVE ID as a warning of "don't use
> this". 2004 is the last time it was updated :)
>
> Thanks.

Aha!  Sorry, I'm dense.  Thanks for the clarification.  =)

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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team