OpenPKG Security Advisory

Publisher Name:          OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home:          http://openpkg.com/

Advisory Id (public):    OpenPKG-SA-2005.016
Advisory Type:           OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory:      http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document:       http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2005.016
Advisory Published:      2008-10-06 22:56 UTC

Issue Id (internal):     OpenPKG-SI-20050728.03
Issue First Created:     2005-07-28
Issue Last Modified:     2006-11-28
Issue Revision:          05


Subject Name:            fetchmail
Subject Summary:         Batch client for POP and IMAP protocols
Subject Home:            http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
Subject Versions:        * <= 6.2.5

Vulnerability Id:        CVE-2005-2335
Vulnerability Scope:     global (not OpenPKG specific)

Attack Feasibility:      run-time
Attack Vector:           remote network
Attack Impact:           denial of service

Description:
    Ross Boylan reported a bug [0] in fetchmail [1] which turned out
    being a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. A malicious POP3 server
    could send a carefully crafted message and cause a denial of service
    and possibly execute arbitrary code via long UIDL responses.

References:
    [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=212762
    [1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
    [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2335
    [3] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-source
    [4] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-binary
    [5] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.4/UPD/fetchmail-6.2.5-2.4.1.src.rpm
    [6] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.3/UPD/fetchmail-6.2.5-2.3.1.src.rpm
    [7] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.4/UPD/
    [8] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.3/UPD/
    [9] http://www.openpkg.org/security.html#signature


Primary Package Name:    fetchmail
Primary Package Home:    http://openpkg.org/go/package/fetchmail

Affected Distribution:   Affected Branch:  Affected Package:
OpenPKG Community        2.3-SOLID         fetchmail-6.2.5-2.3.0
OpenPKG Community        2.4-SOLID         fetchmail-6.2.5-2.4.0
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           fetchmail-6.2.5-20050311

Corrected Distribution:  Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Community        2.3-SOLID         fetchmail-6.2.5-2.3.1
OpenPKG Community        2.4-SOLID         fetchmail-6.2.5-2.4.1
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           fetchmail-6.2.5-20050728