Technical Description

Mandriva has released updated packages 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

Mandrakelinux 10.1
Mandrakelinux 10.2
Corporate Server 2.1
Corporate 3.0

Solution

Use MandrakeUpdate to apply patches :
Mandrakelinux 10.1:
563f08174b32d11c7d072a7c86672cd6 10.1/RPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-5.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
322f5e01a8ccf9611119bf56c81b3c34 10.1/RPMS/fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-5.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
b41cd62c89bd4e728107b8fadb3d10dd 10.1/RPMS/fetchmailconf-6.2.5-5.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
9193b1c0ccf4d8dc1158a2707ff73628 10.1/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-5.1.101mdk.src.rpm
Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64:
e160ad934bb3007cf35c050006bd9bec x86_64/10.1/RPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-5.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
193c90622e9279417f0d89e7368162d2 x86_64/10.1/RPMS/fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-5.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
8b29df74bc7cc01ad0e57052908d96fb x86_64/10.1/RPMS/fetchmailconf-6.2.5-5.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
9193b1c0ccf4d8dc1158a2707ff73628 x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-5.1.101mdk.src.rpm
Mandrakelinux 10.2:
f25ca14a570b18627309b1ec6d6118bb 10.2/RPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-10.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
afdcff56a05aebf22b7cd138166d4ca7 10.2/RPMS/fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-10.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
6d58bd3064e22875011b97cee9c2d809 10.2/RPMS/fetchmailconf-6.2.5-10.1.102mdk.i586.rpm
7d6ab32632446ed61fc18591f1c2fd00 10.2/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-10.1.102mdk.src.rpm
Mandrakelinux 10.2/X86_64:
8f0f018bb2807d5285ae2ef05bb57107 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-10.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
870f31b16001b83be84e51cc93a92200 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-10.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
2f464f9c3409880ef9c457b9986ae712 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/fetchmailconf-6.2.5-10.1.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
7d6ab32632446ed61fc18591f1c2fd00 x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-10.1.102mdk.src.rpm
Corporate Server 2.1:
96185810b7b4ad91d4986fd0d946a15d corporate/2.1/RPMS/fetchmail-6.1.0-1.3.C21mdk.i586.rpm
268fdaf86ca3f5f33b9c1ac0a00efc4a corporate/2.1/RPMS/fetchmail-daemon-6.1.0-1.3.C21mdk.i586.rpm
647d592ec242a09fa869da6f37660299 corporate/2.1/RPMS/fetchmailconf-6.1.0-1.3.C21mdk.i586.rpm
8d3e996da39619613de0046e7c9cb459 corporate/2.1/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.1.0-1.3.C21mdk.src.rpm
Corporate Server 2.1/X86_64:
d19fab3b9b57c4f9c9e4fe6aebd6ea81 x86_64/corporate/2.1/RPMS/fetchmail-6.1.0-1.3.C21mdk.x86_64.rpm
587dc00b22b6fd4e9b17f5bdb26457f6 x86_64/corporate/2.1/RPMS/fetchmail-daemon-6.1.0-1.3.C21mdk.x86_64.rpm
1d44d1c54e69049966b222ada486e633 x86_64/corporate/2.1/RPMS/fetchmailconf-6.1.0-1.3.C21mdk.x86_64.rpm
8d3e996da39619613de0046e7c9cb459 x86_64/corporate/2.1/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.1.0-1.3.C21mdk.src.rpm
Corporate 3.0:
9d67bcb3d6485a0ffb243f9ed23cda22 corporate/3.0/RPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-3.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
f9283b89d96efbbb8f2ce98abe00c563 corporate/3.0/RPMS/fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-3.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
4c170dbe398c93923d2a106dc6275c2e corporate/3.0/RPMS/fetchmailconf-6.2.5-3.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
f7c51eab215fe7c2e46baf154c315d26 corporate/3.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-3.1.C30mdk.src.rpm
Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
6e40e50873f3ca1b49d948e1a3be052a x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-3.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
77d83cddcb9d2daf4b04a8ce09da90b7 x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-3.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
a90e50cc1bbec81fbc8949ef5da5b87f x86_64/corporate/3.0/RPMS/fetchmailconf-6.2.5-3.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
f7c51eab215fe7c2e46baf154c315d26 x86_64/corporate/3.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-3.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1270
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2005-07/msg00023.php

ChangeLog

2005-07-29 : Initial release

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