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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.66396
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:201-1 (fetchmail)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to fetchmail;announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:201-1.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to fetchmail
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:201-1.

Vulnerability Insight:
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in fetchmail:

socket.c in fetchmail before 6.3.11 does not properly handle a '\0'
(NUL) character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN)
and subjectAlt(ernative)Name fields of an X.509 certificate, which
allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via
a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority,
a related issue to CVE-2009-2408 (CVE-2009-2666).

This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.

Update:

Packages for 2008.0 are being provided due to extended support for
Corporate products.

Affected: 2008.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

CVSS Score:
6.8

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2408
1021030
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021030.1-1
1022632
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022632
36088
http://secunia.com/advisories/36088
36125
http://secunia.com/advisories/36125
36139
http://secunia.com/advisories/36139
36157
http://secunia.com/advisories/36157
36434
http://secunia.com/advisories/36434
36669
http://secunia.com/advisories/36669
37098
http://secunia.com/advisories/37098
56723
http://osvdb.org/56723
ADV-2009-2085
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2085
ADV-2009-3184
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184
DSA-1874
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1874
MDVSA-2009:197
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:197
MDVSA-2009:216
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:216
MDVSA-2009:217
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:217
RHSA-2009:1207
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1207.html
RHSA-2009:1432
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1432.html
SUSE-SA:2009:048
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html
SUSE-SR:2009:018
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
USN-810-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-810-1
USN-810-2
https://usn.ubuntu.com/810-2/
[oss-security] 20090903 More CVE-2009-2408 like issues
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125198917018936&w=2
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7003
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html
http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/libraries/libldap/tls_m.c.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.11&f=h
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/kaminsky/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510251
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10751
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10751
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8458
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8458
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2666
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
BugTraq ID: 35951
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35951
Bugtraq: 20090806 fetchmail security announcement fetchmail-SA-2009-01 (CVE-2009-2666) (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505530/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1852 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1852
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:201
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=124949601207156&w=2
http://osvdb.org/56855
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11059
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022679
http://secunia.com/advisories/36175
http://secunia.com/advisories/36179
http://secunia.com/advisories/36236
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.543463
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2155
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