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SUSE-SA:2003:001: fetchmail

high Nessus Plugin ID 13775

Synopsis

The remote host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2003:001 (fetchmail).


fetchmail is used to download emails from POP-, IMAP-, ETRN- or ODMR- servers.
Stefan Esser of e-matters reported a bug in fetchmail's mail address expanding code which can lead to remote system compromise.
When fetchmail expands email addresses in mail headers it doesn not allocated enough memory. An attacker can send a malicious formatted mail header to exhaust the memory allocated by fetchmail to overwrite parts of the heap. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

There is no temporary fix known. Please install the new packages from our FTP servers.

Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
Then, install the package using the command 'rpm -Fhv file.rpm' to apply the update.

Solution

http://www.suse.de/security/2003_001_fetchmail.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 13775

File Name: suse_SA_2003_001.nasl

Version: 1.14

Agent: unix

Published: 7/25/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1365