openSUSE Security Update: update for getmail ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:1315-1 Rating: moderate References: #900217 Cross-References: CVE-2014-7273 CVE-2014-7274 CVE-2014-7275
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 openSUSE 12.3 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.
Description:
- getmail 4.46.0 [bnc#900217] This release fixes several similar vulnerabilities that could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to read encrypted traffic due to pack of certificate verification against the hostname. * fix --idle checking Python version incorrectly, resulting in incorrect warning about running with Python < 2.5 * add missing support for SSL certificate checking in POP3 which broke POP retrieval in v4.45.0 [CVE-2014-7275] - includes changes from 4.45.0: * perform hostname-vs-certificate matching of SSL certificate if validating the certifcate [CVE-2014-7274] * fix missing plaintext versions of documentation - includes changes from 4.44.0: * add extended SSL options for IMAP retrievers, allowing certificate verification and other features [CVE-2014-7273] * fix missing plaintext versions of documentation * fix "Header instance has no attribute 'strip'" error which cropped up in some configurations
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 13.1:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-598
- openSUSE 12.3:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-598
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):
getmail-4.46.0-2.4.1 getmail-doc-4.46.0-2.4.1
- openSUSE 12.3 (noarch):
getmail-4.46.0-2.4.1 getmail-doc-4.46.0-2.4.1
References:
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7273.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7274.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7275.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=900217