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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