Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1259-1 fetchmail -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 14 Feb 2007
- Affected Packages:
- fetchmail
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5867.
- More information:
-
Isaac Wilcox discovered that fetchmail, a popular mail retrieval and forwarding utility, insufficiently enforces encryption of connections, which might lead to information disclosure.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 6.2.5-12sarge5.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.6-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.6-1.
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_6.2.5-12sarge5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5.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_6.2.5-12sarge5.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail-ssl_6.2.5-12sarge5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmailconf_6.2.5-12sarge5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmailconf_6.2.5-12sarge5_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.