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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fetchmail (MDKSA-2001:063)

high Nessus Plugin ID 13878

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Wolfram Kleff reported recently that the fetchmail program would segfault when receiving emails with a very large 'To:' header. This is due to a buffer overflow within the header parsing code, which can be exploited remotely.

Solution

Update the affected fetchmail, fetchmail-daemon and / or fetchmailconf packages.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=100394

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 13878

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2001-063.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 7/31/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

CPE: cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.2, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:fetchmail-daemon, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:fetchmailconf, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:fetchmail

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2001

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2001-0819

MDKSA: 2001:063