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FreeBSD : fetchmail -- denial of service vulnerability (09910d76-4c82-11df-83fb-0015587e2cc1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 45583

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Fetchmail developer Matthias Andree reported a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to crash the application when it is runs in verbose mode.

Fetchmail before release 6.3.17 did not properly sanitize external input (mail headers and UID). When a multi-character locale (such as UTF-8) was in use, this could cause memory exhaustion and thus a denial of service.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145857

https://gitorious.org/fetchmail/fetchmail/commit/ec06293

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2010/q2/76

http://www.nessus.org/u?36a24057

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 45583

File Name: freebsd_pkg_09910d764c8211df83fb0015587e2cc1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Published: 4/21/2010

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:fetchmail, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1167