Date: 16 January 2006
References: ESB-2007.0069
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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2006.0047 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian]
New fetchmail packages fix denial of service
16 January 2006
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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>
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