MGASA-2025-0238 - Updated fetchmail package fixes security vulnerability. MGASA-2025-0238 - Updated fetchmail package fixes security vulnerability Publication date: 14 Oct 2025 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0238.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 9 CVE: CVE-2025-61962 Description: It was discovered that fetchmail's SMTP client, when configured to authenticate, is susceptible to a protocol violation where, when a trusted but malicious or malfunctioning SMTP server responds to an authentication request with a "334" code but without a following blank on the line, it will attempt to start reading from memory address 0x1 to parse the server's SASL challenge. This event will usually cause a crash of fetchmail (CVE-2025-61962). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34644 - https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/03/2 - https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/04/3 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-61962 SRPMS: - 9/core/fetchmail-6.5.6-1.mga9 . Updated fetchmail package in Mageia 9 addresses critical protocol violation vulnerability affecting system integrity.. Mageia fetchmail update protocol violation critical. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Security fix for CVE-2020-15917 (STARTTLS protocol violation).. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2020-fe6c1a9c16 2020-08-02 01:09:07.546825 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name : claws-mail Product : Fedora 31 Version : 3.17.6 Release : 1.fc31 URL : Summary : Email client and news reader based on GTK+ Description : Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+, featuring quick response, graceful and sophisticated interface, easy configuration, intuitive operation, abundant features, and extensibility. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: Security fix for CVE-2020-15917 (STARTTLS protocol violation). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------ChangeLog: * Tue Jul 21 2020 Michael Schwendt - 3.17.6-1 - Update to 3.17.6, includes fix for CVE-2020-15917. * Thu Jun 25 2020 Jitka Plesnikova - 3.17.5-2 - Perl 5.32 rebuild --------------------------------------------------------------------------------References: [ 1 ] Bug #1860414 - CVE-2020-15917 claws-mail: protocol violation because suffix data after STARTTLS is mishandled https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1860414 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-fe6c1a9c16' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be foundat https://fedoraproject.org/security/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list --
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