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Fedora 31: 2020-44e52ef729 Critical: libetpan Response Injection

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Calendar Grey August 18, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tackling a libetpan vulnerability in Fedora 31 to mitigate possible response injection threats. Upgrade is advised.
A security flaw was found on libetpan which may allow malicious attacker to inject additional responses or mimic whole sessions

Summary

The purpose of this mail library is to provide a portable, efficient middle-ware

for different kinds of mail access. When using the drivers interface, the

interface is the same for all kinds of mail access, remote and local mailboxes.

A security flaw was found on libetpan which may allow malicious attacker to

inject additional responses or mimic whole sessions. This vulnerability is now

assined as CVE-2020-15953. This new rpm should fix this issue.

* Mon Aug 10 2020 Mamoru TASAKA - 1.9.3-3

- Address CVE-2020-15953 (bug 1861068)

[ 1 ] Bug #1861071 - CVE-2020-15953 libetpan: response injection via STARTTLS in IMAP [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861071

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-44e52ef729' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 1.9.3
Release: 3.fc31
URL: Summary : Portable, efficient middle-ware for different kinds of mail access

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