DSA-1259-1 fetchmail -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1259-1 fetchmail -- programming error

Date Reported:

14 Feb 2007

Affected Packages:

fetchmail

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5867.

More information:

Isaac Wilcox discovered that fetchmail, a popular mail retrieval and forwarding utility, insufficiently enforces encryption of connections, which might lead to information disclosure.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 6.2.5-12sarge5.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.6-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail-ssl_6.2.5-12sarge5_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmailconf_6.2.5-12sarge5_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_arm.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_ia64.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.