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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT |
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PACKAGE :fetchmail |
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SUMMARY :remote vulnerabilities |
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DATE :2002-10-01 09:30 UTC |
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OVERVIEW |
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Stefan Esser from e-matters has discovered several buffer overflows and |
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a broken boundary check within Fetchmail. |
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DETAIL |
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If Fetchmail is running in multidrop mode these flaws can be used by |
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remote attackers to crash it or to execute arbitrary code with the |
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permissions of the user running fetchmail. Depending on the configuration |
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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/032002.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/fetchmai-0.59.14 and earlier update their systems |
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as follows: |
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emerge rsync |
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emerge fetchmail |
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emerge clean |
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