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>> Fedora Security Update Fixes Fetchmail Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Fetchmail Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1182
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2335
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-07-22
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Fedora has released a security patch to correct a vulnerability identified in Fetchmail. This flaw is due to a stack overflow error when processing specially crafted UIDL responses from a POP3 server, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to connect to a malicious POP3 server. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1171
Affected Products
Fedora Core 4
Fedora Core 3
Solution
Upgrade the affected package :
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/
550fbe893b901e7fc028765819409b8a SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-7.fc3.1.src.rpm
14376533cb1e770d8019960596f29dd1 x86_64/fetchmail-6.2.5-7.fc3.1.x86_64.rpm
372ec66fb81998200b4ba0228f77b943 x86_64/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.2.5-7.fc3.1.x86_64.rpm
62947fe15ecc12933cbcdbdfcb87412b i386/fetchmail-6.2.5-7.fc3.1.i386.rpm
69b34d188aaa91ca770789eb582dc8ca i386/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.2.5-7.fc3.1.i386.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/
e00eaabfa00150c2001ca61a58a7845e SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-7.fc4.1.src.rpm
4528439141789d049cb2094162c92406 ppc/fetchmail-6.2.5-7.fc4.1.ppc.rpm
6bdcf129726571d6e3e2536c3dcc27a3 ppc/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.2.5-7.fc4.1.ppc.rpm
2bebf8c785e918bc43e590a2f029ba48 x86_64/fetchmail-6.2.5-7.fc4.1.x86_64.rpm
3c590e5aa4af40cfa80590ce23b16958 x86_64/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.2.5-7.fc4.1.x86_64.rpm
469b305b86b25c292876877432ce5ead i386/fetchmail-6.2.5-7.fc4.1.i386.rpm
2635dfe61df68b358fb61803a7d12ca1 i386/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.2.5-7.fc4.1.i386.rpm
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1182
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00088.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00089.html
ChangeLog
2005-07-22 : Initial release
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