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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2011-05-26 01:29:34 +0200
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2011-05-26 02:00:30 +0200
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Revert SO_???TIMEO-based STARTTLS timeout handling.
This reverts commits 47c05b10018f5ec7493e4bd9f521aaa18d96f1e2 and 72ce8bce8dd655b6aefa33d0a74e883dad5202b5, the code isn't portable, for instance, Solaris does not support SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO. These socket-level options are known, but Solaris returns EAFNOSUPPORT. Reported by Jonathan Buschmann.
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@@ -58,14 +58,6 @@ removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
fetchmail-6.3.20 (not yet released):
-# SECURITY FIXES
-* Fetchmail's socket timeout handling was incomplete. Network outages in the
- wrong phase of a communication, combined with unlucky operating systems and
- their defaults, could cause fetchmail to hang for extended amounts of time.
- Freezes for beyond a week were reported by Thomas Jarosch. Fetchmail sets
- UNIX- and Internet-domain socket send and receive timeouts now.
- This fixes a hang during STARTTLS negotiation reported by Thomas Jarosch.
-
# CHANGES
* fetchmail now always uses its own MD5 implementation. The library and header
variants are too diverse, and we've been bitten before -- and configure