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diff --git a/website/index.html b/website/index.html index 6d51ee7c..0405f755 100644 --- a/website/index.html +++ b/website/index.html @@ -64,17 +64,24 @@ href="http://mandree.home.pages.de/fetchmail/">fetchmail-6.3.6-rc5 was released< <div style="background-color:#ffe0c0;color:#000000;font-size:85%"> <h1>SECURITY ALERTS</h1> -<p><a name="cve-2008-2711" href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2711">CVE-2008-2711:</a> Fetchmail can <a href="fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt">crash in verbose mode when logging long message headers.</a> This bug will be fixed in release 6.3.9. For the nonce, use the <a href="fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt">patch contained in the security announcement.</a></p> -<p><a name="cve-2007-4565" href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4565">CVE-2007-4565:</a> Fetchmail can <a href="fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt">crash when the SMTP server refuses a warning message generated by fetchmail.</a> This bug was introduced in fetchmail 4.6.8 and will be fixed in release 6.3.9. For the nonce, use the <a href="fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt">patch contained in this security announcement.</a></p> -<p><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1558">CVE-2007-1558:</a> Fetchmail's APOP client was found to <a href="fetchmail-SA-2007-01.txt">validate APOP challenges insufficiently, making man-in-the-middle attacks on APOP secrets unnecessarily easier than need be.</a> This bug was long-standing, fetchmail 6.3.8 validates the APOP challenge stricter.</p> -<p><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5974">CVE-2006-5974:</a> Fetchmail was found to <a href="fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt">crash when refusing a message that was bound to be delivered by an MDA.</a> This bug was introduced into fetchmail 6.3.5 and fixed in 6.3.6.</p> -<p><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5867">CVE-2006-5867:</a> Fetchmail was found to <a href="fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt">omit TLS or send the password in clear text despite the configuration stating otherwise.</a> This was a long-standing bug reported by Isaac Wilcox, fixed in fetchmail 6.3.6. There will be no 6.2.X releases to fix this bug in 6.2.X.</p> -<p><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0321">CVE-2006-0321:</a> Fetchmail was found to <a href="fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt">crash after bouncing a message with bad addresses. This bug was introduced with fetchmail 6.3.0 and fixed in fetchmail 6.3.2.</a></p> -<p><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4348">CVE-2005-4348:</a> Fetchmail was found to contain <a href="fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt">a bug (null pointer dereference) that can be exploited to a denial of service attack</a> when fetchmail runs in multidrop mode. 6.2.5.5 and 6.3.1 have this bug fixed.</p> -<p><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3088">CVE-2005-3088:</a> Fetchmailconf was found to <a href="fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt">open the configuration files world-readable, writing data to them, and only then tightening up permissions</a>, which may cause password information to be visible to other users. This bug affected fetchmail 6.2.0, 6.2.5 and 6.2.5.2. The bug is fixed in fetchmail 6.2.5.4 and 6.3.0.</p> -<p><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2335">CVE-2005-2335:</a> Fetchmail was found to contain a <a href="fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt">remotely exploitable code injection vulnerability (potentially privileged code)</a> in the POP3 code, affecting both the 6.2.0 and 6.2.5 releases. 6.2.5.2, 6.2.5.4 and 6.3.0 have got this bug fixed. (Other versions have not been checked if they contain this bug.)</p> - -<p><strong>Please <a href="http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1824">update to fetchmail version 6.3.8</a> and apply the two patches from the security announcements CVE-2007-4565 and CVE-2008-2711 above.</strong></p> + <p style="font-size:100%">These security issues (listed immediately below) have become + known to the fetchmail maintainer to the date mentioned above. Note + that fetchmail 6.2.X and older are no longer supported and contain + some of the problems mentioned below, even if they aren't mentioned + in the security announcements:</p> + <ul> + <li><a name="cve-2008-2711" href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2711">CVE-2008-2711:</a> Fetchmail can <a href="fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt">crash in verbose mode when logging long message headers.</a> This bug will be fixed in release 6.3.9. For the nonce, use the <a href="fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt">patch contained in the security announcement.</a></li> + <li><a name="cve-2007-4565" href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4565">CVE-2007-4565:</a> Fetchmail can <a href="fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt">crash when the SMTP server refuses a warning message generated by fetchmail.</a> This bug was introduced in fetchmail 4.6.8 and will be fixed in release 6.3.9. For the nonce, use the <a href="fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt">patch contained in this security announcement.</a></li> + <li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1558">CVE-2007-1558:</a> Fetchmail's APOP client was found to <a href="fetchmail-SA-2007-01.txt">validate APOP challenges insufficiently, making man-in-the-middle attacks on APOP secrets unnecessarily easier than need be.</a> This bug was long-standing, fetchmail 6.3.8 validates the APOP challenge stricter.</li> + <li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5974">CVE-2006-5974:</a> Fetchmail was found to <a href="fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt">crash when refusing a message that was bound to be delivered by an MDA.</a> This bug was introduced into fetchmail 6.3.5 and fixed in 6.3.6.</li> + <li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5867">CVE-2006-5867:</a> Fetchmail was found to <a href="fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt">omit TLS or send the password in clear text despite the configuration stating otherwise.</a> This was a long-standing bug reported by Isaac Wilcox, fixed in fetchmail 6.3.6. There will be no 6.2.X releases to fix this bug in 6.2.X.</li> + <li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0321">CVE-2006-0321:</a> Fetchmail was found to <a href="fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt">crash after bouncing a message with bad addresses. This bug was introduced with fetchmail 6.3.0 and fixed in fetchmail 6.3.2.</a></li> + <li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4348">CVE-2005-4348:</a> Fetchmail was found to contain <a href="fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt">a bug (null pointer dereference) that can be exploited to a denial of service attack</a> when fetchmail runs in multidrop mode. 6.2.5.5 and 6.3.1 have this bug fixed.</li> + <li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3088">CVE-2005-3088:</a> Fetchmailconf was found to <a href="fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt">open the configuration files world-readable, writing data to them, and only then tightening up permissions</a>, which may cause password information to be visible to other users. This bug affected fetchmail 6.2.0, 6.2.5 and 6.2.5.2. The bug is fixed in fetchmail 6.2.5.4 and 6.3.0.</li> + <li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2335">CVE-2005-2335:</a> Fetchmail was found to contain a <a href="fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt">remotely exploitable code injection vulnerability (potentially privileged code)</a> in the POP3 code, affecting both the 6.2.0 and 6.2.5 releases. 6.2.5.2, 6.2.5.4 and 6.3.0 have got this bug fixed. (Other versions have not been checked if they contain this bug.)</li> +</ul> + +<p style="font-size:100%"><strong>Please <a href="http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1824">update to fetchmail version 6.3.9</a>.</strong></p> </div> |