It was discovered that fetchmail, a full-featured remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility, is vulnerable to the "Null Prefix Attacks Against SSL/TLS Certificates" recently published at the Blackhat conference. This allows an attacker to perform undetected man-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted ITU-T X.509 certificate with an injected null byte in the subjectAltName or Common Name fields. Note, as a fetchmail user you should always use strict certificate validation through either these option combinations: sslcertck ssl sslproto ssl3 (for service on SSL-wrapped ports) or sslcertck sslproto tls1 (for STARTTLS-based services) For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.6-1etch2. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.9~rc2-4+lenny1. For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.9~rc2-6. We recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail packages.
It was discovered that fetchmail, a full-featured remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility, is vulnerable to the "Null Prefix Attacks Against SSL/TLS Certificates" recently published at the Blackhat conference. This allows an attacker to perform undetected man-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted ITU-T X.509 certificate with an injected null byte in the subjectAltName or Common Name fields.
Note, as a fetchmail user you should always use strict certificate validation through either these option combinations: sslcertck ssl sslproto ssl3 (for service on SSL-wrapped ports) or sslcertck sslproto tls1 (for STARTTLS-based services)
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.6-1etch4.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.9~rc2-4+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.9~rc2-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail packages.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
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