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openSUSE: 2021:1591-1 moderate: fetchmail DoS and Encryption Bypass

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Updates for fetchmail on openSUSE address two vulnerabilities along with several enhancements.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains three features and has four fixes is now available

Description

This update for fetchmail fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-36386: Fixed DoS or information disclosure in some

configurations (bsc#1188875).

- CVE-2021-39272: Fixed STARTTLS session encryption bypassing

(fetchmail-SA-2021-02) (bsc#1190069).

- Update to 6.4.22 (bsc#1152964, jsc#SLE-18159, jsc#SLE-17903,

jsc#SLE-18059)

- Remove all python2 dependencies (bsc#1190896).

- De-hardcode /usr/lib path for launch executable (bsc#1174075).

- Added hardening to systemd service(s) (bsc#1181400).

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

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security advisory moderate fetchmail DoS encryption bypass openSUSE

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-2021-1591=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

fetchmail-6.4.22-lp152.6.12.1

fetchmail-debuginfo-6.4.22-lp152.6.12.1

fetchmail-debugsource-6.4.22-lp152.6.12.1

fetchmailconf-6.4.22-lp152.6.12.1

References

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39272.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1152964

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174075

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181400

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188875

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190069

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190896

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1591-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ble.

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