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>> Fedora Security Update Fixes Fetchmail Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Fetchmail Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-3016
CVE ID : CVE-2005-4348
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-12-21
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Fedora has released updated packages to address a vulnerability identified in Fetchmail. This flaw is due to a null pointer dereference error when processing messages without headers, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application (configured for multidrop mode) via a malicious upstream mail server. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2996
Affected Products
Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages :
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/
daba16d4cbf462e3b1bac38df7bbb892 SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5.5-1.fc3.src.rpm
ae0ea3ac26ce62758c407f24858e8ba2 x86_64/fetchmail-6.2.5.5-1.fc3.x86_64.rpm
02257f602e4b1b7367af678e0dcd523c x86_64/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.2.5.5-1.fc3.x86_64.rpm
a70fcf8a0c625591dcccd53d2c4c004b i386/fetchmail-6.2.5.5-1.fc3.i386.rpm
fa4640af3727723284cc7e24164fd1ab i386/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.2.5.5-1.fc3.i386.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/
b6ae10bb03c0d7772d77d607045fecc5 SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5.5-1.fc4.src.rpm
e1ee3d162be7c26575a7400588178b53 ppc/fetchmail-6.2.5.5-1.fc4.ppc.rpm
ecf46353c5dcdcbda53463687d1d60a0 ppc/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.2.5.5-1.fc4.ppc.rpm
4b7270f4e090b48010102a3291576b56 x86_64/fetchmail-6.2.5.5-1.fc4.x86_64.rpm
9c47aafa233cc0823f4962f71b1eef14 x86_64/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.2.5.5-1.fc4.x86_64.rpm
7ffdaf79e697d2037e8a1e2d681b35bf i386/fetchmail-6.2.5.5-1.fc4.i386.rpm
635f0b5b65056809db38de02c89c6be9 i386/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.2.5.5-1.fc4.i386.rpm
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3016
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/3120
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/3121
ChangeLog
2005-12-21 : Initial release
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