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FreeBSD Ports: fetchmail
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
The following package is affected: fetchmail CVE-2010-0562 The sdump function in sdump.c in fetchmail 6.3.11, 6.3.12, and 6.3.13, when running in verbose mode on platforms for which char is signed, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an SSL X.509 certificate containing non-printable characters with the high bit set, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow during escaping.
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-announce/2010-February/000073.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/2a6a966f-1774-11df-b5c1-0026189baca3.html