CVE-2012-3523

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-06-15
Bugzilla:
850478: CVE-2012-3523 inn (nnrpd): Prone to STARTTLS plaintext command injection

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The STARTTLS implementation in nnrpd in INN before 2.5.3 does not properly restrict I/O buffering, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to insert commands into encrypted sessions by sending a cleartext command that is processed after TLS is in place, related to a "plaintext command injection" attack, a similar issue to CVE-2011-0411.

Find out more about CVE-2012-3523 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of inn as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as they did not include support for the STARTTLS command.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 inn Not affected

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