CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
92.5%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:640
Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility.
A buffer overflow was discovered in fetchmail’s POP3 client. A malicious
server could cause send a carefully crafted message UID and cause fetchmail
to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running
fetchmail. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the
name CAN-2005-2335 to this issue.
Users of fetchmail should update to this erratum package which contains a
backported patch to correct this issue.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-July/074135.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-July/074136.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-July/074137.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-July/074138.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-July/074148.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-July/074149.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-July/074152.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-July/074153.html
Affected packages:
fetchmail
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:640
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 3 | i386 | fetchmail | < 6.2.0-3.el3.2 | fetchmail-6.2.0-3.el3.2.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | x86_64 | fetchmail | < 6.2.0-3.el3.2 | fetchmail-6.2.0-3.el3.2.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | i386 | fetchmail | < 6.2.5-6.el4.2 | fetchmail-6.2.5-6.el4.2.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | x86_64 | fetchmail | < 6.2.5-6.el4.2 | fetchmail-6.2.5-6.el4.2.x86_64.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | ia64 | fetchmail | < 6.2.5-6.el4.2 | fetchmail-6.2.5-6.el4.2.ia64.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | s390 | fetchmail | < 6.2.5-6.el4.2 | fetchmail-6.2.5-6.el4.2.s390.rpm |
CentOS | 4 | s390x | fetchmail | < 6.2.5-6.el4.2 | fetchmail-6.2.5-6.el4.2.s390x.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | ia64 | fetchmail | < 6.2.0-3.el3.2 | fetchmail-6.2.0-3.el3.2.ia64.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | s390 | fetchmail | < 6.2.0-3.el3.2 | fetchmail-6.2.0-3.el3.2.s390.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | s390x | fetchmail | < 6.2.0-3.el3.2 | fetchmail-6.2.0-3.el3.2.s390x.rpm |