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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56047
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 4 FEDORA-2005-1187 (fetchmail)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to fetchmail
announced via advisory FEDORA-2005-1187.

Fetchmail contains a bug where when running in multidrop
mode, a
malicious mail server can crash the client by sending a message
without headers.

This update fixes the issue.
* Tue Dec 20 2005 Miloslav Trmac - 6.2.5.5-1.fc4
- Update to fetchmail-6.2.5.5 (#176267, CVE-2005-4348)

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent
you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2005-1187

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.8

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 15987
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-4348
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15987
BugTraq ID: 19289
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289
Bugtraq: 20051221 fetchmail security announcement fetchmail-SA-2005-03 (CVE-2005-4348) (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420098/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20060526 rPSA-2006-0084-1 fetchmail (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435197/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-939 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-939
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:236
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343836
http://www.osvdb.org/21906
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9659
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015383
http://secunia.com/advisories/17891
http://secunia.com/advisories/18172
http://secunia.com/advisories/18231
http://secunia.com/advisories/18266
http://secunia.com/advisories/18433
http://secunia.com/advisories/18463
http://secunia.com/advisories/18895
http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
http://secunia.com/advisories/24007
http://secunia.com/advisories/24284
SGI Security Advisory: 20070201-01-P
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.443499
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:004 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0002/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/233-1/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2996
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101
XForce ISS Database: fetchmail-null-pointer-dos(23713)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23713
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