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Fedora 37: Advisory FEDORA-2022-f092bc8f7b Moderate: libetpan IMAP Issue

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Calendar Grey December 2, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
CVE-2022-4121 affects libetpan, causing potential security risks. Fedora 37 provides a workaround to mitigate this issue. Follow the instructions to stay secure.
A potential bug is found on libetpan that when IMAP client receives invalid STATUS response, an invalid free can occur on mailimap_mailbox_data_status_free()

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 potential bug is found on libetpan that when IMAP client receives invalid

STATUS response, an invalid free can occur on

mailimap_mailbox_data_status_free(). This bug is now assigned as CVE-2022-4121.

Although the formal fix is under discussion, this update rpm adds a quick fix

for this issue.

* Wed Nov 23 2022 Mamoru TASAKA - 1.9.4-9

- Workaround for CVE-2022-4121 (bug 2144914)

[ 1 ] Bug #2144915 - libetpan: Null pointer dereference in mailimap_mailbox_data_status_free in low-level/imap/mailimap_types.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144915

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-f092bc8f7b' 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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Product: Fedora 37
Version: 1.9.4
Release: 9.fc37
URL: Summary : Portable, efficient middle-ware for different kinds of mail access

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