Debian Security Advisory
DSA-060-1 fetchmail -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 16 Jun 2001
- Affected Packages:
- fetchmail
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-0819.
- More information:
-
Wolfram Kleff found a problem in fetchmail: it would crash when
processing emails with extremely long headers. The problem was
a buffer overflow in the header parser which could be exploited.
This has been fixed in version 5.3.3-1.2, and we recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail package immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/fetchmail_5.3.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/fetchmailconf_5.3.3-1.2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.