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CVE-2004-1182

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2005-01-11 hylafax -- unauthorized login vulnerability

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2004-1182
Phase Assigned(20041213)

Description

hfaxd in HylaFAX before 4.2.1, when installed with a "weak" hosts.hfaxd file, allows remote attackers to authenticate and bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted (1) username or (2) hostname that satisfies a regular expression that is matched against a hosts.hfaxd entry without a password.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20050111 HylaFAX hfaxd unauthorized login vulnerability
MLIST [hylafax-announce] 20050111 **ANOUNCE** hylafax-4.2.1 released
DEBIAN DSA-634
GENTOO GLSA-200501-21
MANDRAKE MDKSA-2005:006
SECUNIA 13812