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Fedora 33: 2021-47893f53ed Moderate: Fetchmail DoS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey August 11, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 33 enhancement rectifies CVE-2021-36386 in fetchmail, mitigating possible Denial of Service or data exposure vulnerabilities.
Security fix for CVE-2021-36386

Summary

Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended

for use over on-demand TCP/IP links, like SLIP or PPP connections.

Fetchmail supports every remote-mail protocol currently in use on the

Internet (POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all IMAPs, ESMTP ETRN, IPv6,

and IPSEC) for retrieval. Then Fetchmail forwards the mail through

SMTP so you can read it through your favorite mail client.

Install fetchmail if you need to retrieve mail over SLIP or PPP

connections.

Security fix for CVE-2021-36386

* Tue Aug 3 2021 Vitezslav Crhonek - 6.4.20-1

- Update to fetchmail-6.4.20 (CVE-2021-36386)

[ 1 ] Bug #1987766 - CVE-2021-36386 fetchmail: DoS or information disclosure when logging long messages

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1987766

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-47893f53ed' at the command

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

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 33
Version: 6.4.20
Release: 1.fc33
Summary: A remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility

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