Debian Security Advisory DSA 774-1 - Edward Shornock discovered a bug in the UIDL handling code of fetchmail, a common POP3, APOP and IMAP mail fetching utility. A malicious POP3 server could exploit this problem and inject arbitrary code that will be executed on the victim host. If fetchmail is running as root, this becomes a root exploit.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 774-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
August 12th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : fetchmail
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-2335
CERT advisory :
BugTraq ID : 14349
Debian Bug : 212762
Edward Shornock discovered a bug in the UIDL handling code of
fetchmail, a common POP3, APOP and IMAP mail fetching utility. A
malicious POP3 server could exploit this problem and inject arbitrary
code that will be executed on the victim host. If fetchmail is
running as root, this becomes a root exploit.
the old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.2.5-12sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.2.5-16.
We recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 650 3eb739416b5b7a906b56b3145cf1ba32
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 150578 12cdd33c6299e840ffcf3cfa00eb2e0e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1257376 9956b30139edaa4f5f77c4d0dbd80225
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail-ssl_6.2.5-12sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42268 593148b798ec57fbca09340ecb139c1e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmailconf_6.2.5-12sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 101356 c7e81ed2ef2c7375e3afb9d937a1aa91
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 572940 7426819c3db555eb6c1b5bf866b2113d
AMD64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 554678 56223b7979f4e4410c05620d153a01ba
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 549146 b8f0493390f4aa713004f913f2696e73
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 548184 4b004ec450045c4d0d4b9fda7d9b04cc
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 597056 5a7e4a0f676edeed83bd3e48d4747b57
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 561656 5ed8c10d345f358e85f58937e7aa79c9
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 537964 8ce1a7e8de2858d8b9166c7166309173
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 556648 ee365e9943ae1646eb6ac051c6645833
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 556388 5f07b01938a6171da1c319006700ec93
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 556168 55c628ab054ef7022c679e15edde8fae
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 554510 5457354b0ee7ed5c735c582408396154
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.2.5-12sarge1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 549168 db954a1eafe045ff6f2eb4c3c64abf3f
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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