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Ubuntu 816-1 Moderate: Fetchmail Man In The Middle Attack Alert

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu security alert regarding fetchmail vulnerability using NULL characters in certificates; update is advised.
Moxie Marlinspike discovered that fetchmail did not properly handlecertificates with NULL characters in the certificate name

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security advisory fetchmail critical Ubuntu man in the middle certificate exploit

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fetchmail vulnerability

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security advisory fetchmail critical Ubuntu man in the middle certificate exploit

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