From f1c0ba89205211f7f723ca81c0130dde30dca336 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:23:41 +0200 Subject: Document fix for NTLM crash, + Security advisory (draft). --- NEWS | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cb6e5d14..3ee8d85b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3