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@@ -58,6 +58,14 @@ 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 |