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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-3 |
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PACKAGE : fetchmail |
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SUMMARY : buffer overflow |
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DATE : 2002-12-15 13:12 UTC |
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EXPLOIT : remote |
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- From e-matters advisory: |
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"In the light of recent discoveries we reaudited Fetchmail and found |
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another bufferoverflow within the default configuration. This heap |
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overflow can be used by remote attackers to crash it or to execute |
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arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running fetchmail. |
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Depending on the configuration this allows a remote root compromise." |
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Read the full advisory at |
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http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/052002.html |
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SOLUTION |
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It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running |
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net-mail/fetchmail-6.1.2 and earlier update their systems as follows: |
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emerge rsync |
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emerge fetchmail |
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emerge clean |
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