Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1377-2 fetchmail -- null pointer dereference
- Date Reported:
- 21 Sep 2007
- Affected Packages:
- fetchmail
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-4565.
- More information:
-
Matthias Andree discovered that fetchmail, an SSL enabled POP3, APOP and IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder, can under certain circumstances attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and crash.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem was not present.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.6-1etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmailconf_6.3.6-1etch1_all.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1_mips.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.