FreeBSD : fetchmail -- denial-of-service vulnerability (ac4b9d18-67a9-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 37051

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Dave Jones discovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in fetchmail.
An email message containing a very long line could cause fetchmail to segfault due to missing NUL termination in transact.c.

Eric Raymond decided not to mention this issue in the release notes for fetchmail 6.2.5, but it was fixed there.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 37051

File Name: freebsd_pkg_ac4b9d1867a911d880e30020ed76ef5a.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:fetchmail, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0792

BID: 8843

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