RLSA-2022:1964
Moderate: fetchmail security update
Topic
An update is available for fetchmail.
This update affects Rocky Linux 8.
A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list
Description
Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended for use over on-demand TCP/IP links, like SLIP or PPP connections. Fetchmail supports every remote-mail protocol currently in use on the Internet (POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all IMAPs, ESMTP ETRN, IPv6, and IPSEC) for retrieval. Then Fetchmail forwards the mail through SMTP so the user can read it through their favorite mail client.
Security Fix(es):
* fetchmail: DoS or information disclosure when logging long messages (CVE-2021-36386)
* fetchmail: STARTTLS session encryption bypassing (CVE-2021-39272)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Rocky Linux 8
SRPMs
- fetchmail-0:6.4.24-1.el8.src.rpm
RPMs
- fetchmail-0:6.4.24-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
- fetchmail-0:6.4.24-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
- fetchmail-debuginfo-0:6.4.24-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
- fetchmail-debuginfo-0:6.4.24-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
- fetchmail-debugsource-0:6.4.24-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
- fetchmail-debugsource-0:6.4.24-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
Issued: 5/10/2022
Type: Security
Severity: Moderate
Affected Product
- Rocky Linux 8
References
- No references