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Slackware 15.0: Fetchmail Important Crash Issue Security Fix 2025-276-01

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Fetchmail updated for Slackware 15.0 to fix critical crash issue during SMTP authentication. Upgrade recommended now.
New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/fetchmail-6.4.27-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: fetchmail SMTP client can crash when authenticating. For more information, see: https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2025-01.txt (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory fetchmail important slackware authentication crash

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/fetchmail-6.4.27-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/fetchmail-6.4.27-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/fetchmail-6.5.6-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/fetchmail-6.5.6-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 3f5bd049e96d5620d6061faf2f69299c fetchmail-6.4.27-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 7caa37a5bbc8608ab85ae2da47b8bfb6 fetchmail-6.4.27-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 6491042fe061d9a3ca05bdb0046ae49f n/fetchmail-6.5.6-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 7ff57dfd85af3e0a8bb84e836d9f8bcd n/fetchmail-6.5.6-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory fetchmail important slackware authentication crash

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg fetchmail-6.4.27-i586-2_slack15.0.txz