Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Updated fetchmail packages are available | Linux Today

Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Updated fetchmail packages are available

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 10, 2000

Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:48 -0500
From: bugzilla@redhat.com
To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com
Subject: [RHBA-2000:106-04] Updated fetchmail packages are
available.


                   Red Hat, Inc. Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis:          Updated fetchmail packages are available.
Advisory ID:       RHBA-2000:106-04
Issue date:        2000-11-10
Updated on:        2000-11-10
Product:           Red Hat Linux
Keywords:          fetchmail imap gss
Cross references:  N/A

1. Topic:

Updated fetchmail packages are now available for Red Hat Linux
6.x and 7.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Linux 6.0 – i386, alpha, sparc
Red Hat Linux 6.1 – i386, alpha, sparc
Red Hat Linux 6.2 – i386, alpha, sparc
Red Hat Linux 6.2EE – i386, alpha, sparc
Red Hat Linux 7.0 – i386
Red Hat Linux 7.0J – i386

3. Problem description:

The updated IMAP server released in errata advisory RHSA:102-04
exposes a bug in fetchmail’s implementation of the AUTHENTICATE
GSSAPI command.

4. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):

N/A

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.0:

sparc:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/sparc/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/sparc/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm

alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/alpha/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/alpha/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm

sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.src.rpm

Red Hat Linux 6.1:

alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/alpha/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/alpha/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm

sparc:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/sparc/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/sparc/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm

sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/SRPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.src.rpm

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/alpha/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/alpha/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm

sparc:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/sparc/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/sparc/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm


ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm

sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/SRPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.src.rpm

Red Hat Linux 7.0:

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/fetchmail-5.5.0-3.i386.rpm

ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-3.i386.rpm

sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-3.src.rpm

7. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name

103aa87a7000f9935c0a8b575fa7780e 6.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.src.rpm
0606d4b53c128acc8ee17b26de227b5b 6.0/alpha/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm
e05ee45a596a84884aa7ae8da7eda466 6.0/alpha/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm
79e9adc61d7868c041a3a4907555a9c0 6.0/i386/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm
37f65f44a0325614d434b50ae6e6f76f 6.0/i386/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm
575f6c244c73418493e0b46fc019903f 6.0/sparc/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm
cb5a060c91c5835b1848bad97264c77d 6.0/sparc/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm
103aa87a7000f9935c0a8b575fa7780e 6.1/SRPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.src.rpm
0606d4b53c128acc8ee17b26de227b5b 6.1/alpha/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm
e05ee45a596a84884aa7ae8da7eda466 6.1/alpha/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm
79e9adc61d7868c041a3a4907555a9c0 6.1/i386/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm
37f65f44a0325614d434b50ae6e6f76f 6.1/i386/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm
575f6c244c73418493e0b46fc019903f 6.1/sparc/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm
cb5a060c91c5835b1848bad97264c77d 6.1/sparc/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm
103aa87a7000f9935c0a8b575fa7780e 6.2/SRPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.src.rpm
0606d4b53c128acc8ee17b26de227b5b 6.2/alpha/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm
e05ee45a596a84884aa7ae8da7eda466 6.2/alpha/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.alpha.rpm
79e9adc61d7868c041a3a4907555a9c0 6.2/i386/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm
37f65f44a0325614d434b50ae6e6f76f 6.2/i386/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.i386.rpm
575f6c244c73418493e0b46fc019903f 6.2/sparc/fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm
cb5a060c91c5835b1848bad97264c77d 6.2/sparc/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-2.6.sparc.rpm
9ce7eb4620bb85a1ac967202e0e82ea1 7.0/SRPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-3.src.rpm
fd0639885f9452ccd8175cebe4bc9d75 7.0/i386/fetchmail-5.5.0-3.i386.rpm
7a9a339eafaa0b970a27f0ee9a44e5cc 7.0/i386/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-3.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our
key is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html

You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm –checksig <filename>

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been
corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the
following command:
rpm –checksig –nogpg <filename>

8. References:

N/A

Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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