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If through a vulnerability assessment, a network security issue is detected for the vulnerability below, applying the appropriate security patches in a timely matter is very important. If you have detected that your system has already been compromised, following CERT's Network Security recovery document will assist with recommended steps for system recovery. Home >> Browse Vulnerability Assessment Database >> Mandrake Local Security Checks >> MDKSA-2002:036: fetchmail Vulnerability Assessment Details
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MDKSA-2002:036: fetchmail |
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Check for the version of the fetchmail package Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory MDKSA-2002:036 (fetchmail). A problem was discovered with versions of fetchmail prior to 5.9.10 that was triggered by retreiving mail from an IMAP server. The fetchmail client will allocate an array to store the sizes of the messages it is attempting to retrieve. This array size is acertaind by the number of messages the server is claiming to have, and fetchmail would not check whether or not the number of messages the server was claiming was too high. This would permit a malicious server to make the fetchmail process write data outside of the array bounds. Solution : http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:036 Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: 4788 Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Tenable Network Security |
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