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Gentoo: GLSA 202310-07 Normal: wget Insecure Download Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
The potential leakage of private data in fetchmailconf necessitates urgent user measures to safeguard credentials against local vulnerabilities.
fetchmailconf fails to properly handle file permissions, temporarily exposing sensitive information to other local users.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200511-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: fetchmail: Password exposure in fetchmailconf Date: November 06, 2005 Bugs: #110366 ID: 200511-06

Synopsis ======= fetchmailconf fails to properly handle file permissions, temporarily exposing sensitive information to other local users.
Background ========= fetchmail is a utility that retrieves and forwards mail from remote systems using IMAP, POP, and other protocols. It ships with fetchmailconf, a graphical utility used to create configuration files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-mail/fetchmail < 6.2.5.2-r1 >= 6.2.5.2-r1
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