-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-3 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : fetchmail SUMMARY : buffer overflow DATE : 2002-12-15 13:12 UTC EXPLOIT : remote - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - From e-matters advisory: "In the light of recent discoveries we reaudited Fetchmail and found another bufferoverflow within the default configuration. This heap overflow can be used by remote attackers to crash it or to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running fetchmail. Depending on the configuration this allows a remote root compromise." Read the full advisory at http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/052002.html SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-mail/fetchmail-6.1.2 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge fetchmail emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- alizat_private - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz avenjat_private - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9/H6GfT7nyhUpoZMRAsaYAJ91S9qnCMg7K52RKryLUMuWi0URIACgpFdF AUF2cEn+Y8qLPsolPSSIf0s= =nDtt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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