Debian Security Advisory

DSA-060-1 fetchmail -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
16 Jun 2001
Affected Packages:
fetchmail
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-0819.
More information:
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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/fetchmail_5.3.3.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/fetchmailconf_5.3.3-1.2_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_m68k.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/fetchmail_5.3.3-1.2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.