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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 1:47 pm    Post subject: [gentoo-announce] GLSA: fetchmail Reply with quote

Daniel Ahlberg wrote:
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE :fetchmail
SUMMARY :remote vulnerabilities
DATE :2002-10-01 09:30 UTC

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OVERVIEW

Stefan Esser from e-matters has discovered several buffer overflows and a broken boundary check within Fetchmail.

DETAIL

If Fetchmail is running in multidrop mode these flaws can be used by remote attackers to crash it or to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running fetchmail. Depending on the configuration this allows a remote root compromise.

Read the full advisory at
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/032002.html

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-mail/fetchmai-0.59.14 and earlier update their systems as follows:

emerge rsync
emerge fetchmail
emerge clean

Mailing List Archives: http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-announce/2002-October/000209.html

--kurt
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