Detections
Analytics
CVE-2012-2143
critical
Description
The crypt_des (aka DES-based crypt) function in FreeBSD before 9.0-RELEASE-p2, as used in PHP, PostgreSQL, and other products, does not process the complete cleartext password if this password contains a 0x80 character, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain access via an authentication attempt with an initial substring of the intended password, as demonstrated by a Unicode password.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816956
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026995
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2491
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1037.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00102.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00003.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082294.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082292.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082258.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://www.postgresql.org/support/security/
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-4.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-8.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-12.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3-19.html
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:02.crypt.asc