Slackware: 2003-300-02 Critical: Fetchmail Email Crash Issue
slackware
October 27, 2003
Fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: Wed Oct 22 12:10:11 PDT 2003 patches/packages/fetchmail-6.2.5-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to fetchmail-6.2.5. This fixes a security issue where a specially crafted message could cause fetchmail to crash, preventing the user from retrieving email. (* Security fix *) WHERE TO FIND THE NEW PACKAGES: Updated package for Slackware 8.1: Updated package for Slackware 9.0: Updated package for Slackware 9.1: Updated package for Slackware -current: MD5 SIGNATURES: Slackware 8.1 package: 8dba5701f5f67ba267664548e7cbd45e fetchmail-6.2.5-i386-1.tgz Slackware 9.0 package: 818773e14c5d43b738190c7ed9a4854b fetchmail-6.2.5-i386-1.tgz Slackware 9.1 package: d37acd5314447bd7e727e47432ab6c70 fetchmail-6.2.5-i486-1.tgz Slackware -current package: d37acd5314447bd7e727e47432ab6c70 fetchmail-6.2.5-i486-1.tgz INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: Upgrade fetchmail as root: # upgradepkg fetchmail-6.2.5-i486-1.tgz
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