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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.54428
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:640
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2005:640.

Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility.

A buffer overflow was discovered in fetchmail's POP3 client. A malicious
server could cause send a carefully crafted message UID and cause fetchmail
to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running
fetchmail. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the
name CVE-2005-2335 to this issue.

Users of fetchmail should update to this erratum package which contains a
backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-640.html

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 14349
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2335
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14349
BugTraq ID: 19289
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289
Bugtraq: 20060526 rPSA-2006-0084-1 fetchmail (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435197/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20060801 DMA[2006-0801a] - 'Apple OSX fetchmail buffer overflow' (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441856/100/200/threaded
Cert/CC Advisory: TA06-214A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html
Debian Security Information: DSA-774 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-774
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00088.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00089.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00104.html
http://www.osvdb.org/18174
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1038
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1124
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8833
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-640.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/16176
http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:018 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1171
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101
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