Immunix OS Security Advisory: fetchmail
Jun 15, 2001, 13:30 (0 Talkback[s])
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:54:35 -0700
From: Immunix Security Team <security@wirex.com>
Subject: fetchmail update -- Immunix OS 6.2, 7.0-beta, 7.0
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Immunix OS Security Advisory
Packages updated: fetchmail
Affected products: Immunix OS 6.2, 7.0-beta, and 7.0
Bugs fixed: immunix/1618
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001
Advisory ID: IMNX-2001-70-025-01
Author: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
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Description:
Fetchmail, as shipped with Immunix OS 6.2 and 7.0, contains a buffer
overflow in the handling of headers. StackGuard will prevent exploits
from granting privileges; however, denial of service attacks are
possible.
References:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=3Dno&bug=3D100394
Thanks go to Wolfram Kleff for finding this problem and Henrique de
Moraes Holschuh for supplying a fix.
Package names and locations:
Precompiled binary packages for Immunix 6.2 are available at:
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/fetchmail-5.3.1-2_St=
ackGuard.i386.rpm
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/fetchmailconf-5.3.1-=
2_StackGuard.i386.rpm
Source packages for Immunix 6.2 are available at:
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/SRPMS/fetchmail-5.3.1-2_S=
tackGuard.src.rpm
Precompiled binary packages for Immunix 7.0-beta and 7.0 are available at:
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-4_im=
nx.i386.rpm
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-=
4_imnx.i386.rpm
Source package for Immunix 7.0-beta and 7.0 is available at:
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/SRPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-4_i=
mnx.src.rpm
md5sums of the packages:
6.2:
ea10b64694935dd20be38df09924736a RPMS/fetchmail-5.3.1-2_StackGuard.i386.rpm
fdebb78fcabdc43a811f9ed546252850 RPMS/fetchmailconf-5.3.1-2_StackGuard.i386.rpm
eb7af556575d1d0e6e59976aa5b09730 SRPMS/fetchmail-5.3.1-2_StackGuard.src.rpm
7.0:
e8169308534f68bc978ed2c1bc0aeeca RPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-4_imnx.i386.rpm
242f4aa0fe21c71f1ddce4cf5c6cb0a0 RPMS/fetchmailconf-5.5.0-4_imnx.i386.rpm
c8c4069439fe66caf013fea502947ada SRPMS/fetchmail-5.5.0-4_imnx.src.rpm
GPG verification:
Our public key is available at http://wirex.com/security/GPG_KEY
*** NOTE *** This key is different from the one used in advisories
IMNX-2001-70-020-01 and earlier.
Online version of all Immunix 6.2 updates and advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/
Online version of all Immunix 7.0-beta updates and advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0-beta/updates/
Online version of all Immunix 7.0 updates and advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/
NOTE:
Ibiblio is graciously mirroring our updates, so if the links above are
slow, please try:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/immunix/
or one of the many mirrors available at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html
Contact information:
To report vulnerabilities, please contact security@wirex.com. WireX=20
attempts to conform to the RFP vulnerability disclosure protocol
http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/policy.html

