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[DSA060] DSA-060-1 fetchmail

Family:

Debian Local Security Checks

Category:

infos

Copyright:

This script is (C) 2004 Michel Arboi

Summary:

DSA-060-1 fetchmail

Version:

$Revision: 1.4 $

Cve_id:

CVE-2001-0819

Bugtraq_id:

-

Xrefs:

DSA:060

Description:

Wolfram Kleff found a problem in fetchmail: it would crash when
processing emails with extremely long headers. The problem was
a buffer overflow in the header parser which could be exploited.

This has been fixed in version 5.3.3-1.2, and we recommend that
you upgrade your fetchmail package immediately.



Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-060
Risk factor : High