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Ubuntu 6.10: USN-405-1 Critical: Fetchmail Auth Issue Due to TLS

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2007
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Fetchmail upgrade vital for stopping the unprotected password flow over networks. Confirm proper TLS implementation.
It was discovered that fetchmail did not correctly require TLS negotiation in certain situations

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security advisory fetchmail critical Ubuntu authentication issue TLS negotiation

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-405-1 January 11, 2007

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security advisory fetchmail critical Ubuntu authentication issue TLS negotiation

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