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diff --git a/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt b/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt index 50529d81..ed10cfc1 100644 --- a/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt +++ b/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt @@ -3,21 +3,25 @@ fetchmail-SA-2005-01: security announcement Topic: remote code injection vulnerability in fetchmail Author: Matthias Andree -Version: 1.01 +Version: 1.02 Announced: 2005-07-21 Type: buffer overrun/stack corruption/code injection Impact: account or system compromise possible through malicious or compromised POP3 servers Danger: high: in sensitive configurations, a full system compromise is possible + (for 6.2.5.1: denial of service for the whole fetchmail + system is possible) CVE Name: CAN-2005-2335 URL: http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=212762 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/3497d7be-2fef-45f4-8162-9063751b573a.html + http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/3f4ac724-fa8b-11d9-afcf-0060084a00e5.html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=83805 + http://www.heise.de/security/news/meldung/62070 Thanks: Edward J. Shornock (located the bug in UIDL code) Miloslav Trmac (pointed out 6.2.5.1 was faulty) - Ludwig Nussel (provided minimal fix) + Ludwig Nussel (provided minimal correct fix) Affects: fetchmail version 6.2.5.1 (denial of service) fetchmail version 6.2.5 (code injection) @@ -33,6 +37,7 @@ Not affected: fetchmail 6.2.5.2 Corrected: 2005-07-22 01:37 UTC (SVN) - committed bugfix (r4157) 2005-07-22 fetchmail-patch-6.2.5.2 released + 2005-07-23 fetchmail-6.2.5.2 tarball released 0. Release history @@ -40,11 +45,16 @@ Corrected: 2005-07-22 01:37 UTC (SVN) - committed bugfix (r4157) 2005-07-22 1.01 - Withdrew 6.2.5.1 and 6.2.6-pre5, the fix was buggy and susceptible to denial of service through single-byte read from 0 when either a Message-ID: - header was empty or the UIDL response did not - contain an URL. + header was empty (in violation of RFC-822/2822) + or the UIDL response did not contain an UID (in + violation of RFC-1939). - Add Credits. - Add 6.2.5.1 failure details to sections 2 and 3 - Revise section 5 and B. +2005-07-26 1.02 - Revise section 0. + - Add FreeBSD VuXML URL for 6.2.5.1. + - Add heise security URL. + - Mention release of 6.2.5.2 tarball. 1. Background @@ -85,8 +95,9 @@ No reasonable workaround can be offered at this time. Upgrade your fetchmail package to version 6.2.5.2. -This requires the download of the fetchmail-6.2.5.tar.gz tarball and the -fetchmail-patch-6.2.5.2.gz from BerliOS: +You can either download a complete tarball of fetchmail-6.2.5.2.tar.gz, +or you can download a patch against fetchmail-6.2.5 if you already have +the 6.2.5 tarball. Either is available from: <http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1824> |