SuSE Security Announcement: fetchmail (SuSE-SA:2003:001)
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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: fetchmail
Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2003:001
Date: Thursday, Jan 2nd 2003 09:30 MEST
Affected products: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1
SuSE eMail Server 3.1
SuSE eMail Server III
SuSE Firewall Adminhost VPN
SuSE Linux Admin-CD for Firewall
SuSE Firewall on CD 2 - VPN
SuSE Firewall on CD 2
SuSE Linux Connectivity Server
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
SuSE Linux Office Server
UnitedLinux 1.0
Vulnerability Type: remote compromise
Severity (1-10): 4
SuSE default package: yes
Cross References: CAN-2002-1365
Content of this advisory:
1) security vulnerability resolved:
- heap buffer overflow while expanding email addresses
problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds:
- none
3) standard appendix (further information)
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1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information
fetchmail is used to download emails from POP-, IMAP-, ETRN- or ODMR-
servers.
Stefan Esser of e-matters reported a bug in fetchmail's mail address
expanding code which can lead to remote system compromise.
When fetchmail expands email addresses in mail headers it doesn not
allocated enough memory. An attacker can send a malicious formatted mail
header to exhaust the memory allocated by fetchmail to overwrite parts of
the heap. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
There is no temporary fix known. Please install the new packages from
our FTP servers.
Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
the update.
Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
are being offered to install from the maintenance web.
Intel i386 Platform:
SuSE-8.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/fetchmail-5.9.13-54.i586.rpm
9a8a8d20e57dd5552fc35c1d17d8f5b2
patch rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/fetchmail-5.9.13-54.i586.patch.rpm
9bfc1e8511d3be0da42cc32b06ffef47
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/src/fetchmail-5.9.13-54.src.rpm
8e1310dfe46748320b1c92813a1e9294
SuSE-8.0:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/n1/fetchmail-5.9.0-279.i386.rpm
3be7d683cabd44a5f83b1c0f50a1b1e9
patch rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/n1/fetchmail-5.9.0-279.i386.patch.rpm
38c7c2cca1db2e524b1e4f29ef1e8606
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/zq1/fetchmail-5.9.0-279.src.rpm
d63b65fa7ddba8f93ffc47fa3fc84fe4
SuSE-7.3:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/n1/fetchmail-5.9.0-280.i386.rpm
32e4614b5cdf6afea748036e70d80bab
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/zq1/fetchmail-5.9.0-280.src.rpm
299b9512dbe87c8e16f14d28288115d3
SuSE-7.2:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/n1/fetchmail-5.8.0-78.i386.rpm
f3267936cae7fc659007291ac15f42b4
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/zq1/fetchmail-5.8.0-78.src.rpm
318d9781b715741cc9d27b102544d30a
SuSE-7.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/n1/fetchmail-5.6.5-40.i386.rpm
311076babc7c2a75b13f24a446327ced
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/zq1/fetchmail-5.6.5-40.src.rpm
55c64a56f10aa2904955188b1a40a34a
Sparc Platform:
SuSE-7.3:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/n1/fetchmail-5.9.0-66.sparc.rpm
5a2abaab7029167944512b8aab306770
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/zq1/fetchmail-5.9.0-66.src.rpm
95725d5f8aa677641ea1b041222ed8be
AXP Alpha Platform:
SuSE-7.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/n1/fetchmail-5.6.5-30.alpha.rpm
ad4833f9e2a4e6bf31336f2dc363d3e1
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/zq1/fetchmail-5.6.5-30.src.rpm
ac786b49dcbf71357b4894c0b4fd4b55
PPC Power PC Platform:
SuSE-7.3:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/n1/fetchmail-5.9.0-205.ppc.rpm
6ea104ac2cd3f00a511de286f571ea54
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/zq1/fetchmail-5.9.0-205.src.rpm
94def5a2d8752920375ddaf8b056c3ca
SuSE-7.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/n1/fetchmail-5.6.5-29.ppc.rpm
053e1842b7830489f21573c7e5dc25c4
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/zq1/fetchmail-5.6.5-29.src.rpm
f3220918ec06565d7c588a72dc2514bb
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2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:
- none
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3) standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information
- Package authenticity verification:
SuSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
file or rpm package:
1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.
1) execute the command
md5sum
participants (1)
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Thomas Biege