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Server: cvs.openpkg.org Name: Ralf S. Engelschall
Root: /e/openpkg/cvs Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Module: openpkg-web Date: 08-Apr-2004 17:19:31
Branch: HEAD Handle: 2004040816193100
Modified files:
openpkg-web/security OpenPKG-SA-2004.012-fetchmail.txt
Log:
final cleanups, fixes and par(1) formatting
Summary:
Revision Changes Path
1.2 +21 -22 openpkg-web/security/OpenPKG-SA-2004.012-fetchmail.txt
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patch -p0 <<'@@ .'
Index: openpkg-web/security/OpenPKG-SA-2004.012-fetchmail.txt
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$ cvs diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2 OpenPKG-SA-2004.012-fetchmail.txt
--- openpkg-web/security/OpenPKG-SA-2004.012-fetchmail.txt 8 Apr 2004 12:25:36
-0000 1.1
+++ openpkg-web/security/OpenPKG-SA-2004.012-fetchmail.txt 8 Apr 2004 15:19:31
-0000 1.2
@@ -10,24 +10,23 @@
Vulnerability: denial of service
OpenPKG Specific: no
-Affected Releases: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
-OpenPKG CURRENT <= fetchmail-6.2.4-20031008 >= fetchmail-6.2.5-20031016
-OpenPKG 1.3 <= fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.0 >= fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.1
+Affected Releases: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
+OpenPKG CURRENT <= fetchmail-6.2.4-20031008 >= fetchmail-6.2.5-20031016
+OpenPKG 1.3 <= fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.0 >= fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.1
+OpenPKG 2.0 none N.A.
Dependent Packages: none
Description:
- According to Mandrake security advisory MDKSA-2003:101 [0], a
- denial of service vulnerability exists in the header rewriting
- code of fetchmail [1]. The code's intention is to hack message
- headers so replies work properly. However, logic in the reply_hack
- function fails to allocate enough memory for long lines and may
- write past a memory boundary. This could allow an attacker to
- cause a denial of service by sending a specially crafted email
- and crashing fetchmail.
-
- The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned
- the id CAN-2003-0792 [2] to the problem.
+ According to a Mandrake Linux security advisory [0], a denial of
+ service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the header rewriting code of
+ Fetchmail [1]. The code's intention is to hack message headers so
+ replies work properly. However, logic in the reply_hack() function
+ fails to allocate enough memory for long lines and may write past a
+ memory boundary. This could allow an attacker to cause a denial of
+ service by sending a specially crafted email and crashing fetchmail.
+ The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id
+ CAN-2003-0792 [2] to the problem.
Please check whether you are affected by running "<prefix>/bin/rpm
-q fetchmail". If you have the "fetchmail" package installed and its
@@ -37,9 +36,9 @@
Solution:
Select the updated source RPM appropriate for your OpenPKG release
[5], fetch it from the OpenPKG FTP service [6] or a mirror location,
- verify its integrity [7], build a corresponding binary RPM from it [3]
- and update your OpenPKG installation by applying the binary RPM [4].
- For the OpenPKG 1.3 release, perform the following operations to
+ verify its integrity [7], build a corresponding binary RPM from it
+ [3] and update your OpenPKG installation by applying the binary RPM
+ [4]. For the OpenPKG 1.3 release, perform the following operations to
permanently fix the security problem.
$ ftp ftp.openpkg.org
@@ -47,19 +46,19 @@
ftp> cd release/1.3/UPD
ftp> get fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.1.src.rpm
ftp> bye
- $ <prefix>/bin/openpkg rpm -v --checksig fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.1.src.rpm
- $ <prefix>/bin/openpkg rpm --rebuild fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.1.src.rpm
+ $ <prefix>/bin/rpm -v --checksig fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.1.src.rpm
+ $ <prefix>/bin/rpm --rebuild fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.1.src.rpm
$ su -
- # <prefix>/bin/openpkg rpm -Fvh <prefix>/RPM/PKG/fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.1.*.rpm
+ # <prefix>/bin/rpm -Fvh <prefix>/RPM/PKG/fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.1.*.rpm
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References:
[0] http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2003:101
- [2] http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
+ [1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0792
[3] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-source
[4] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-binary
- [5] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/UPD/foo-1.2.3-1.3.1.src.rpm
+ [5] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/UPD/fetchmail-6.2.3-1.3.1.src.rpm
[6] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/UPD/
[7] http://www.openpkg.org/security.html#signature
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