-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1377-2 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp September 21, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : fetchmail Vulnerability : null pointer dereference Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-4565 Matthias Andree discovered that fetchmail, an SSL enabled POP3, APOP and IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder, can under certain circumstances attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and crash. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.6-1etch1. For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem was not present. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail package. Upgrade instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.6-1etch1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 641344 2eadc43a18712b3a1763094f7c837475 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG8/RowM/Gs81MDZ0RAsV5AJ4zq/rWuYTHRafkjTPp5Eg0cv1teACfQztf 4GE7IYiy9jSuAA5hSvi0ccI= =Qmk2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
