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Fetchmail Bounced Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA18571
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Release Date:
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2006-01-23
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Fetchmail 6.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2006-0321 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Fetchmail, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to incorrect freeing of an invalid pointer when bouncing a message to the originator or to the local postmaster. This can be exploited to crash Fetchmail.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions 6.3.x prior to 6.3.2 and in release candidates 6.3.2-rc1, -rc2, and -rc3.
Solution:
Update to version 6.3.2 or later.
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1824
NOTE: The vendor reports that fetchmail 6.2.x has reached end of life.
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Nathaniel W. Turner.
Original Advisory:
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
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8 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. Fetchmail Large Header Processing Denial of Service
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2. Fetchmail TLS Configuration Security Issue and "MDA" Denial of Service
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3. Fetchmail Headerless Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
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4. Fetchmail "fetchmailconf" Password Disclosure Vulnerability
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5. Fetchmail UIDL Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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6. fetchmail Denial of Service Vulnerability
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7. Fetchmail heap overflow
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8. Fetchmail remote vulnerabilities
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