Gentoo: 2002-12-15 Security Advisory for Fetchmail Remote Exploit
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December 16, 2002
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
Summary
- -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-3 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 2002-12-15 13:12 UTC
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From e-matters advisory:
"In the light of recent discoveries we reaudited Fetchmail and found another buffer overflow 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."
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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
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PACKAGE : fetchmail
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
EXPLOIT : remote
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