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fetchmail-SA-2021-01: DoS or information disclosure logging long messages
Topics: fetchmail denial of service or information disclosure when logging long messages
Author: Matthias Andree
Version: 1.2
Announced: 2021-07-28 (original), 2021-08-03 (last update)
Type: missing variable initialization can cause read from bad memory
locations
Impact: fetchmail logs random information, or segfaults and aborts,
stalling inbound mail
Danger: low
Acknowledgment: Christian Herdtweck, Intra2net AG, Tübingen, Germany
for analysis and report and a patch suggestion
CVE Name: CVE-2021-36386 and CVE-2008-2711
URL: https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2021-01.txt
URL: https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt
Project URL: https://www.fetchmail.info/
Affects: - fetchmail releases up to and including 6.3.8
- fetchmail releases 6.3.17 up to incl. 6.4.19
Not affected: - fetchmail releases 6.4.20 and newer
- fetchmail releases 6.3.9 to 6.3.16
Corrected in: c546c829 Git commit hash
2021-07-28 fetchmail 6.4.20 release tarball
2021-08-03 7.0.0-alpha9/6.5.0-beta4 snapshots
0. Release history
==================
2021-07-07 initial report to maintainer
2021-07-28 1.0 release
2021-07-28 1.1 update Git commit hash with correction
2021-08-03 1.2 add references to CVE-2008-2711/fetchmail-SA-2008-01
1. Background
=============
fetchmail is a software package to retrieve mail from remote POP3, IMAP,
ETRN or ODMR servers and forward it to local SMTP, LMTP servers or
message delivery agents. fetchmail supports SSL and TLS security layers
through the OpenSSL library, if enabled at compile time and if also
enabled at run time, in both SSL/TLS-wrapped mode on dedicated ports as
well as in-band-negotiated "STARTTLS" and "STLS" modes through the
regular protocol ports.
2. Problem description and Impact
=================================
Fetchmail has long had support to assemble log/error messages that are
generated piecemeal, and takes care to reallocate the output buffer as needed.
In the reallocation case, i. e. when long log messages are assembled that can
stem from very long headers, and on systems that have a varargs.h/stdarg.h
interface (all modern systems), fetchmail's code would fail to reinitialize
the va_list argument to vsnprintf.
The exact effects depend on the verbose mode (how many -v are given) of
fetchmail, computer architecture, compiler, operating system and
configuration. On some systems, the code just works without ill effects, some
systems log a garbage message (potentially disclosing sensitive information),
some systems log literally "(null)", some systems trigger SIGSEGV (signal
#11), which crashes fetchmail, causing a denial of service on fetchmail's end.
The same bug then named CVE-2008-2711 had already been fixed in fetchmail 6.3.9,
but a code refactoring in fetchmail 6.3.17 (commit 414a3809 in 2010)
reintroduced the bug.
Fetchmail versions 6.4.19 and older are no longer supported, however.
The bugfix used in 6.4.20 uses a different, more thorough, approach.
3. Solution
===========
Install fetchmail 6.4.20 or newer.
The fetchmail source code is available from
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/>.
Distributors are encouraged to review the NEWS file and move forward to
6.4.20, rather than backport individual security fixes, because doing so
routinely misses other fixes crucial to fetchmail's proper operation,
for which no security announcements are issued, or documentation,
or translation updates.
Fetchmail 6.4.X releases have been made with a focus on unchanged user and
program interfaces so as to avoid disruptions when upgrading from 6.3.Z or
6.4.X to 6.4.Y with Y > X. Care was taken to not change the interface
incompatibly.
A. Copyright, License and Non-Warranty
======================================
(C) Copyright 2021 by Matthias Andree, <matthias.andree@gmx.de>.
Some rights reserved.
fetchmail-SA-2021-01 © 2021 by Matthias Andree is licensed under CC
BY-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
THIS WORK IS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES.
Use the information herein at your own risk.
END of fetchmail-SA-2021-01
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