[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#212762: fetchmail 6.2.5.1 found to be faulty, 6.2.5.2 released.

Lucas Wall lwall at debian.org
Fri Jul 22 04:30:45 UTC 2005


Matthias Andree wrote, On 21/07/05 23:57:
> The fetchmail update patch 6.2.5.1 was found to be faulty by Miloslav
> Trmac, it contains a denial of service vulnerability. For details, see
> <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-devel/2005-July/000397.html>
> 
> I have uploaded fetchmail-patch-6.2.5.2.gz to
> <http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1824> which
> contains a much simpler fix that Ludwig Nussel of SUSE Security has
> provided.
> 
> I have updated the security announcement at
> <http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt> to version 1.01.

I've got a package with this ready, but ftp-master will be down till
Monday. Any idea if I can upload the package through someplace else?

K.

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