Secunia Security Advisory - Nicolae Mihalache has reported a security issue in avelsieve, which potentially can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
avelsieve "MANAGESIEVE" Denial of Service Security Issue
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13634
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13634/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
avelsieve 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4452/
DESCRIPTION:
Nicolae Mihalache has reported a security issue in avelsieve, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).
The security issue is caused due to an error in the "MANAGESIEVE"
class. This may be exploited to cause the script to enter an eternal
loop which causes the script to consume large amounts of memory.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.1.
http://email.uoa.gr/projects/squirrelmail/avelsieve_download.php
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Nicolae Mihalache
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