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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2006.0047 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] New fetchmail packages fix denial of service 16 January 2006 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: fetchmail Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Impact: Denial of Service Access: Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2005-4348 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-939 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 939-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 13th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : fetchmail Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-4348 Daniel Drake discovered a problem in fetchmail, an SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder, that can cause a crash when the program is running in multidrop mode and receives messages without headers. The old stable distribution (woody) does not seem to be affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 6.2.5-12sarge4. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.1-1. We recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail package. Upgrade Instructions - - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 650 da6a5aa9e110932fb67071233c390fa2 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 150807 6ccb7da887a4b42997e08ef27fbebf55 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1257376 9956b30139edaa4f5f77c4d0dbd80225 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail-ssl_6.2.5-12sarge4_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 42234 7f4fae48064a57eae406d72676ab0e54 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmailconf_6.2.5-12sarge4_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 101308 1d2a6d40b517a3fc447e2f2d30319fbf Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 572964 d87d2f1dd059d0aa4854253405c7fdc3 AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 555706 9b819cf25859874a1a37585eed8664d6 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 549176 ae3b2abd6c4408c8be07a8a8065cd2ab Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 547692 3bc3343f756f1fea4bc7b731cc6e2fed Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 597004 c1f497a0ac9ba4f04ab31e1ad66ff729 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 561572 cbc31b2ececa0e02ec1a2fa6bc02c019 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 537914 1ac30118a80e1b516fbdcaf9e53f3264 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 556594 6704277ba1a9b9706e6e921ee76e0931 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 556424 f82021920ac82e2126580a3f594953a1 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 556180 b72003c6bbec3bfeeeade4bc94b2f7ff IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 554496 90790158afe5fb2f5da3eafdfb6d5874 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 549094 d1533c572fe845b7e49e88fb40acf0fb These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDx2eMW5ql+IAeqTIRAvaQAJ42FSGgy4UKbIEHYuGc/AHi0c0WXQCfQL4r j4/jMdvhlbB+Bo4nAhny02A= =qIRF - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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