Re: Qpopper 4.0.3 **** Fixes Buffer Overflow **** (fwd)

From: Roman Drahtmueller (drahtat_private)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 09:52:23 PDT

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    > Qpopper 4.0.3 is available at
    > <ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/>.
    >
    >
    > **** 4.0.3 FIXES A BUFFER OVERFLOW PRESENT IN ALL VERSIONS OF 4.0 --
    > PLEASE UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY ***
    
    We hope that this information is accurate. Version 4.0.2 is not on the ftp
    server any more, and there is no patch from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3.
    We currently feel handicapped in our efforts to check the code for the
    changes wrt the buffer overflow.
    
    SuSE ships qpopper versions 2.53 (with a set of patches that include
    security fixes for this version) for SuSE-6.3, 6.4 and 7.0, SuSE-7.1 and
    the upcoming SuSE-7.2 release have version 3.1.2.
    
    If the above statement is right, then SuSE distributions are not
    vulnerable. However, we wish to double-check such a claim. All kinds of
    verification and transparency are welcome, including an official statement
    from Qualcomm (thanks in advance!).
    
    
    > Changes from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3:
    > ----------------------------
    >   1.  Don't call SSL_shutdown unless we tried to negotiate an
    >       SSL session.  (As suggested by Kenneth Porter.)
    >   2.  Fix buffer overflow  (reported by Gustavo Viscaino).
    
    
    Thank you,
    Roman Drahtmüller,
    SuSE Security.
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