Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error in Fetchmail. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1860

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 2007.1
Mandriva Linux 2008.0
Mandriva Linux 2008.1
Mandriva Corporate 3.0
Mandriva Corporate 4.0

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
77b20fed31ffc8f26b91b289b1735742 2007.1/i586/fetchmail-6.3.6-1.3mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
48d0099eb291e7ed6de0ee268f483be4 2007.1/i586/fetchmailconf-6.3.6-1.3mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
efc2563d1ab82b6d0f32762caefa2439 2007.1/i586/fetchmail-daemon-6.3.6-1.3mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
a208f8c8096e5204fa17f749c369fa4c 2007.1/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.3.6-1.3mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
f9a9f4086f217c01330a39db69976a80 2007.1/x86_64/fetchmail-6.3.6-1.3mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
64fbf2cba15a7871884859263832effa 2007.1/x86_64/fetchmailconf-6.3.6-1.3mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
826669b445b5107862a07d9b0e75bfb9 2007.1/x86_64/fetchmail-daemon-6.3.6-1.3mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
a208f8c8096e5204fa17f749c369fa4c 2007.1/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.3.6-1.3mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
44bf754420177032e7720aa6385d92dd 2008.0/i586/fetchmail-6.3.8-4.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
090719d821a64ebc3ac486bfc1b90363 2008.0/i586/fetchmailconf-6.3.8-4.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
836dbd2dda8acb1267bfaedfb342a1b7 2008.0/i586/fetchmail-daemon-6.3.8-4.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
67ccd52b855904cdab9c59403ca75144 2008.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.3.8-4.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
ffd538cbfe8476577c172088e6ab6ccd 2008.0/x86_64/fetchmail-6.3.8-4.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
bba7c59daafdf2b922fdc49c8289e950 2008.0/x86_64/fetchmailconf-6.3.8-4.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
5ba2c860cdf76975243aa95f637e5bfa 2008.0/x86_64/fetchmail-daemon-6.3.8-4.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
67ccd52b855904cdab9c59403ca75144 2008.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.3.8-4.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1:
3183a6eecffd1d3f28cc653d7c1154cb 2008.1/i586/fetchmail-6.3.8-7.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
332305442e6617b3c6e8477b8873d671 2008.1/i586/fetchmailconf-6.3.8-7.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
64f5cd910f5e25a82eb673fc3e017f7d 2008.1/i586/fetchmail-daemon-6.3.8-7.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
b4625b074ae3f30016eca5beedddda85 2008.1/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.3.8-7.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64:
afa1fe93700e16c207b26466c379dba0 2008.1/x86_64/fetchmail-6.3.8-7.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
38fc1cb8e9b6a838fd7aaac05cbdfd6c 2008.1/x86_64/fetchmailconf-6.3.8-7.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
96413fc60a0d5c961e69c5ecae03001c 2008.1/x86_64/fetchmail-daemon-6.3.8-7.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
b4625b074ae3f30016eca5beedddda85 2008.1/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.3.8-7.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0:
8ea71c3755960b09d7f24de64d26f8cd corporate/3.0/i586/fetchmail-6.2.5-3.7.C30mdk.i586.rpm
d56338486e23c1b4bed562feaeaa9a7b corporate/3.0/i586/fetchmailconf-6.2.5-3.7.C30mdk.i586.rpm
2a9a1ea5b35a6079de582d4a023263e3 corporate/3.0/i586/fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-3.7.C30mdk.i586.rpm
9b1b9c5cab6b2c81b11f26b7587aa096 corporate/3.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-3.7.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
84203e2a84ad1772a78ba5b5c9c33a2f corporate/3.0/x86_64/fetchmail-6.2.5-3.7.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
3d6dbf92ffc9101a765decbe530437c9 corporate/3.0/x86_64/fetchmailconf-6.2.5-3.7.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
156c24d040be43da88842d5ee27b40ba corporate/3.0/x86_64/fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-3.7.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
9b1b9c5cab6b2c81b11f26b7587aa096 corporate/3.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-3.7.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 4.0:
1f69a551eb9f1afbbe6e42be597b1ba1 corporate/4.0/i586/fetchmail-6.2.5-11.6.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
421360e6dee540b9d4e28b274724e604 corporate/4.0/i586/fetchmailconf-6.2.5-11.6.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
6451f4757de94be5d5a5c8542c8e703b corporate/4.0/i586/fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-11.6.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
1c3a942647354d1de2b6abe0253e02b0 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-11.6.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

Corporate 4.0/X86_64:
c9101af89574256bba203cd4f7e215c1 corporate/4.0/x86_64/fetchmail-6.2.5-11.6.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
938b40ccf9dcade9edf7347fdd42324b corporate/4.0/x86_64/fetchmailconf-6.2.5-11.6.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
990a1f0e7642ce75a4923a24990b0b68 corporate/4.0/x86_64/fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-11.6.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
1c3a942647354d1de2b6abe0253e02b0 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-6.2.5-11.6.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1877
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2008-06/msg00027.php

ChangeLog

2008-06-20 : Initial release

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