Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.54117
Category:	SuSE Local Security Checks
Title:	SuSE Security Advisory SUSE-SA:2003:001 (fetchmail)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory SUSE-SA:2003:001. fetchmail is used to download emails from POP-, IMAP-, ETRN- or ODMR- servers. Stefan Esser of e-matters reported a bug in fetchmail's mail address expanding code which can lead to remote system compromise. When fetchmail expands email addresses in mail headers it doesn not allocated enough memory. An attacker can send a malicious formatted mail header to exhaust the memory allocated by fetchmail to overwrite parts of the heap. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code. Solution: Update your system with the packages as indicated in the referenced security advisory. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=SUSE-SA:2003:001 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 7.5
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2002-1365 BugTraq ID: 6390 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6390 Bugtraq: 20021213 Advisory 05/2002: Another Fetchmail Remote Vulnerability (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103979751818638&w=2 Bugtraq: 20021215 GLSA: fetchmail (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104004858802000&w=2 Caldera Security Advisory: CSSA-2003-001.0 ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2003-001.0.txt Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2002:554 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000554 Debian Security Information: DSA-216 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-216 En Garde Linux Advisory: ESA-20030127-002 Immunix Linux Advisory: IMNX-2003-7+-023-01 http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:011 http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/052002.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-293.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-294.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-155.html SuSE Security Announcement: SuSE-SA:2003:001 (Google Search) XForce ISS Database: fetchmail-address-header-bo(10839) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10839
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