Product Errata

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.

Issued: 5/10/2022

Type: Security

Severity: Moderate

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 8

References

  • No references