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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2005-08-02 01:42:40 +0000
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2005-08-02 01:42:40 +0000
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Update.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=4221
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@@ -6,21 +6,21 @@ Abbreviations: MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk)
fetchmail 6.3.0 (not yet released officially):
-SECURITY FIX:
+# SECURITY FIX
* The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the input
length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
root shell. This is tracked under the CVE Name: CAN-2005-2335
-MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
+# MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
* Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
longer available.
http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
-OTHER CHANGES:
+# OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
* Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
* PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
* Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ OTHER CHANGES:
* Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
* Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
-* Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
* Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
* Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
@@ -67,8 +66,7 @@ OTHER CHANGES:
* Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
* Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
- kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman.
- (MA)
+ kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
* Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
* Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
@@ -164,7 +162,16 @@ OTHER CHANGES:
2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
* gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
+* fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
+ fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
+ directory.
+* The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
+ option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6.
+
+# INTERNAL CHANGES
+* Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
* Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
+* Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines: