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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58616
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1377-2)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'fetchmail' package(s) announced via the DSA-1377-2 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'fetchmail' package(s) announced via the DSA-1377-2 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Matthias Andree discovered that fetchmail, an SSL enabled POP3, APOP and IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder, can under certain circumstances attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and crash.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem was not present.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.3.6-1etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your fetchmail package.

Affected Software/OS:
'fetchmail' package(s) on Debian 4.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-4565
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
BugTraq ID: 25495
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25495
Bugtraq: 20070907 FLEA-2007-0053-1 fetchmail (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478798/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20080617 fetchmail security announcement fetchmail-SA-2007-02 (CVE-2007-4565) (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493388/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1377 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1377
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:179
http://osvdb.org/45833
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10528
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018627
http://secunia.com/advisories/27399
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3074
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:022 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0028/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-520-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3032
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
XForce ISS Database: fetchmail-warning-dos(36385)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36385
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