Debian: New fetchmail packages fix potential information leak
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 900-2 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 21st, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : fetchmail Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3088 Debian Bug : 336096 Due to restrictive dependency definition the updated fetchmailconf package couldn't be installed on the old stable distribution (woody) together with fetchmail-ssl. Hence, this update loosens it, so that the update can be pulled in. For completeness we're including the original advisory text: Thomas Wolff discovered that the fetchmailconfig program which is provided as part of fetchmail, an SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder, creates the new configuration in an insecure fashion that can lead to leaking passwords for mail accounts to local users. This update also fixes a regression in the package for stable caused by the last security update. For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.9.11-6.4. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 6.2.5-12sarge3. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.2.5.4-1. We recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail package. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 712 e1a82c36c542d941d9ab5fddd72a084b Size/MD5 checksum: 300946 003692d316f2ff494fe6486c33211490 Size/MD5 checksum: 950273 fff00cbf7be1d01a17605fee23ac96dd Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 165494 c81bd2391062a87978341feebd8c37b9 Size/MD5 checksum: 92860 e6839df03c88066d2512ec2aa15f4409 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 307132 e726923c5c1fe0466d94fc850011abb8 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 290738 d77ba92322089b6616153ec4c7174918 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 286456 44493842e69d13461215ccf3f005ada2 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 329954 ded4883a2870ade58dcc1ca525a76fc9 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 299108 a149496bb4e367043440b54faa8f3420 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 281270 79d99ef204a11fc4855cd80c987deba8 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 296536 5dbce03b1d4c4dafefd2a76865d038d0 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 296000 db69187b67827063291609685c992245 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 291488 8cecaef33456e36256a7498c8ce07556 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 288956 3d5dd68aca0781fdaa64bc600960af46 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 293594 24741d48693824b9654fe54f28690fd4 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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