Debian Security Advisory

DSA-939-1 fetchmail -- programming error

Date Reported:
13 Jan 2006
Affected Packages:
fetchmail
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-4348.
More information:

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4.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_6.2.5-12sarge4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmailconf_6.2.5-12sarge4_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge4_sparc.deb

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