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Gentoo: GLSA-200701-13 Normal: Fetchmail DoS and Password Leak

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Calendar Grey January 22, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Fetchmail's security flaws enable service disruption and potential password exposure, as outlined in the Gentoo GLSA 200701-14.
Fetchmail has been found to have numerous vulnerabilities allowing for Denial of Service and password disclosure.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Fetchmail: Denial of Service and password disclosure Date: January 22, 2007 Bugs: #160463 ID: 200701-13

Synopsis ======= Fetchmail has been found to have numerous vulnerabilities allowing for Denial of Service and password disclosure.
Background ========= Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-mail/fetchmail < 6.3.6 >= 6.3.6
========== Neil Hoggarth has discovered that when delivering messages to a message delivery agent by means of the "mda" option, Fetchmail passes a NULL pointer to ...

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