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Fedora 42: Fetchmail 6.5.6 Important Denial of Service CVE-2025-61962

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fetchmail 6.5.6 released for Fedora 42 to fix a significant denial of service issue. Immediate patching recommended.
Update to fetchmail-6.5.6 (CVE-2025-61962)

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.

Update Information:

Update to fetchmail-6.5.6 (CVE-2025-61962)

Change Log

* Thu Oct 9 2025 Vitezslav Crhonek - 6.5.6-1 - Update to fetchmail-6.5.6 (CVE-2025-61962) Resolves: #2402010

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2402010 - CVE-2025-61962 fetchmail: Fetchmail denial of service [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2402010

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-ab3c40c1f4' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: fetchmail
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 6.5.6
Release: 1.fc42
Summary: A remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility

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