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Debian Security Advisory DSA 071-1 (fetchmail)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to fetchmail announced via advisory DSA 071-1.

Insight

Insight

Salvatore Sanfilippo found two remotely exploitable problems in fetchmail while doing a security audit. In both the imap and pop3 code the input is not verified and used to store a number in an array. Since no bounds checking is done this can be used by an attacker to write arbitrary data in memory. An attacker can use this if we can get a user to transfer mail from a custom imap or pop3 server he controls. This has been fixed in version 5.3.3-3.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20071-1

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