- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-13 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: Fetchmail: Denial of Service and password disclosure Date: January 22, 2007 Bugs: #160463 ID: 200701-13 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== Fetchmail has been found to have numerous vulnerabilities allowing for Denial of Service and password disclosure. Background ========== Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. Affected packages ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-mail/fetchmail < 6.3.6 >= 6.3.6 Description =========== Neil Hoggarth has discovered that when delivering messages to a message delivery agent by means of the "mda" option, Fetchmail passes a NULL pointer to the ferror() and fflush() functions when refusing a message. Isaac Wilcox has discovered numerous means of plain-text password disclosure due to errors in secure connection establishment. Impact ====== An attacker could deliver a message via Fetchmail to a message delivery agent configured to refuse the message, and crash the Fetchmail process. SMTP and LMTP delivery modes are not affected by this vulnerability. An attacker could also perform a Man-in-the-Middle attack, and obtain plain-text authentication credentials of users connecting to a Fetchmail process. Workaround ========== There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution ========== All fetchmail users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/fetchmail-6.3.6" References ========== [ 1 ] CVE-2006-5867 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5867 [ 2 ] CVE-2006-5974 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5974 Availability ============ This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml Concerns? ========= Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org. License ======= Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
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