Debian Security Advisory
DSA-774-1 fetchmail -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 12 Aug 2005
- Affected Packages:
- fetchmail
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 212762.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 14349.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2335. - More information:
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Edward Shornock discovered a bug in the UIDL handling code of fetchmail, a common POP3, APOP and IMAP mail fetching utility. A malicious POP3 server could exploit this problem and inject arbitrary code that will be executed on the victim host. If fetchmail is running as root, this becomes a root exploit.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 6.2.5-12sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.2.5-16.
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_6.2.5-12sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail-ssl_6.2.5-12sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmailconf_6.2.5-12sarge1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmailconf_6.2.5-12sarge1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.