[Pkg-roundcube-maintainers] Bug#509596: roundcube: CVE-2008-5620 massive memory consumption via crafted image

[Nico Golde]

Package: roundcube
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for roundcube.

CVE-2008-5620[0]:
| RoundCube Webmail (roundcubemail) before 0.2-beta allows remote
| attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via
| crafted size parameters that are used to create a large quota image.

Attached is a patch I extracted from the bundled upstream 
patch on http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=898542

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5620
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-5620

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