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Message-ID: <200210011141.55004.aliz@gentoo.org> From: aliz at gentoo.org (Daniel Ahlberg) Subject: GLSA: fetchmail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE :fetchmail SUMMARY :remote vulnerabilities DATE :2002-10-01 09:30 UTC - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW Stefan Esser from e-matters has discovered several buffer overflows and a broken boundary check within Fetchmail. DETAIL If Fetchmail is running in multidrop mode these flaws can be used by remote attackers to crash it or to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running fetchmail. Depending on the configuration this allows a remote root compromise. Read the full advisory at http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/032002.html SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-mail/fetchmai-0.59.14 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge fetchmail emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@...too.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mW3hfT7nyhUpoZMRAh6JAKCZSF3VP/Sv6d6Z9Z2de9DibUrRLACgrqzl kzkBm2vimYteHzp2Mis8ZOU= =Ggvb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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