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openSUSE 15.2: 2021:1183-1 Moderate: Fetchmail Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey August 23, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE Security Patch: Fetchmail upgrade addresses a memory leak concern and bolsters security protocols.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for fetchmail fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-36386: Fixed a missing variable initialization that can cause

read from bad memory locations. (bsc#1188875)

- Change PASSWORDLEN from 64 to 256 (bsc#1188034)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1183=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

fetchmail-6.3.26-lp152.6.6.1

fetchmail-debuginfo-6.3.26-lp152.6.6.1

fetchmail-debugsource-6.3.26-lp152.6.6.1

fetchmailconf-6.3.26-lp152.6.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36386.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188034

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188875

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1183-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ble.

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