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openSUSE Leap 15.4: 2021:4500-2 Important: Fetchmail Memory Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2021
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A recent patch for openSUSE addresses a significant concern in fetchmail concerning memory management connected to CVE-2021-36386.
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)

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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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2791=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

fetchmail-6.3.26-20.14.1

fetchmail-debuginfo-6.3.26-20.14.1

fetchmail-debugsource-6.3.26-20.14.1

fetchmailconf-6.3.26-20.14.1

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-2021:2791-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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