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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Fetchmail vulnerabilities (USN-9013-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 378018

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-9013-1 advisory.

 Christian Herdtweck discovered that Fetchmail incorrectly handled certain long log messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Fetchmail to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-36386)

 It was discovered that the Fetchmail SMTP client incorrectly handled certain status code messages. An attacker controlling a malicious server could possibly use this issue to cause Fetchmail to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-61962)

 Tristan Madani discovered that Fetchmail incorrectly handled certain NTLM authentication challenges. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Fetchmail to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service. (CVE-2026-94184)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected fetchmail package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-9013-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 378018

File Name: ubuntu_USN-9013-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2026

Updated: 11/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fetchmail

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2026

Reference Information

USN: 9013-1