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Slackware Fetchmail Update 2006-045-01 Critical Security Issues

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2006
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Latest Fetchmail updates for Slackware address security vulnerabilities; users encouraged to update from 8.1 through -current for enhanced protection.
New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/fetchmail-6.3.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to fetchmail-6.3.2. Presumably this replaces all the known security problems with a batch of new unknown ones. (fetchmail is improving, really ;-) For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3088 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4348 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-0321 (* Security fix *)

Where Find New Packages

Updated package for Slackware 8.1:
Updated package for Slackware 9.0:
Updated package for Slackware 9.1:
Updated package for Slackware 10.0:
Updated package for Slackware 10.1:
Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:

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Slackware 8.1 package: 51c338a1fc1dc25c3e23a02036ceb183 fetchmail-6.3.2-i386-1.tgz
Slackware 9.0 package: 6cf66d2b3e663ca13708945485b3ee60 fetchmail-6.3.2-i386-1.tgz
Slackware 9.1 package: 7d35c3233ae47524f868a7df5d06e909 fetchmail-6.3.2-i486-1.tgz
Slackware 10.0 package: 1e93e387406f3d57c9a76969f90d0d45 fetchmail-6.3.2-i486-1.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package: a2fb5c20ed4a91f4b9e6eaa9f1120a51 fetchmail-6.3.2-i486-1.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package: 6c14da4b4eefc2651c35ebeefc3b0357 fetchmail-6.3.2-i486-1.tgz
Slackware -current package: 8d49d3e6985c78831a37f3c4b8d51279 fetchmail-6.3.2-i486-1.tgz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg fetchmail-6.3.2-i486-1.tgz

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