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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2012-08-13 21:23:41 +0200
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2012-08-13 21:23:41 +0200
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Document fix for NTLM crash, + Security advisory (draft).
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@@ -58,7 +58,14 @@ removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
fetchmail-6.3.22 (not yet released):
-# SECURITY FIX
+# SECURITY FIXES
+* CVE-2012-(not yet assigned):
+ NTLM: fetchmail mistook an error message that the server sent in response to
+ an NTLM request for protocol exchange, tried to decode it, and crashed while
+ reading from a bad memory location.
+ Fix: Detect base64 decoding errors and abort NTLM authentication.
+ See fetchmail-SA-2012-02.txt for further details.
+ Reported by J. Porter Clark.
* CVE-2011-3389:
SSL/TLS (wrapped and STARTTLS): fetchmail used to disable a countermeasure
against a certain kind of attack against cipher block chaining initialization