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Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:201 (fetchmail)

🗓️ 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.comType 
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A vulnerability has been found and corrected in fetchmail: socket.c in fetchmail before 6.3.11 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, allowing man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a crafted certificate

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# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: mdksa_2009_201.nasl 6573 2017-07-06 13:10:50Z cfischer $
# Description: Auto-generated from advisory MDVSA-2009:201 (fetchmail)
#
# Authors:
# Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
# or at your option, GNU General Public License version 3,
# as published by the Free Software Foundation
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
#

include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "A vulnerability has been found and corrected in fetchmail:

socket.c in fetchmail before 6.3.11 does not properly handle a '\0'
character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field
of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers
to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a
legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408
(CVE-2009-2666).

This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.

Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0,
          Enterprise Server 5.0";
tag_solution = "To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:201";
tag_summary = "The remote host is missing an update to fetchmail
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:201.";

                                                                                

if(description)
{
 script_id(64609);
 script_version("$Revision: 6573 $");
 script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-07-06 15:10:50 +0200 (Thu, 06 Jul 2017) $");
 script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-08-17 16:54:45 +0200 (Mon, 17 Aug 2009)");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2408", "CVE-2009-2666");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
 script_name("Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:201 (fetchmail)");



 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

 script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com");
 script_family("Mandrake Local Security Checks");
 script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
 script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/mandriva_mandrake_linux", "ssh/login/rpms");
 script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
 script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
 script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
 script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
 script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail", rpm:"fetchmail~6.3.8~7.2mdv2008.1", rls:"MNDK_2008.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmailconf", rpm:"fetchmailconf~6.3.8~7.2mdv2008.1", rls:"MNDK_2008.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail-daemon", rpm:"fetchmail-daemon~6.3.8~7.2mdv2008.1", rls:"MNDK_2008.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail", rpm:"fetchmail~6.3.8~8.1mdv2009.0", rls:"MNDK_2009.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmailconf", rpm:"fetchmailconf~6.3.8~8.1mdv2009.0", rls:"MNDK_2009.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail-daemon", rpm:"fetchmail-daemon~6.3.8~8.1mdv2009.0", rls:"MNDK_2009.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail", rpm:"fetchmail~6.3.9~1.1mdv2009.1", rls:"MNDK_2009.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmailconf", rpm:"fetchmailconf~6.3.9~1.1mdv2009.1", rls:"MNDK_2009.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail-daemon", rpm:"fetchmail-daemon~6.3.9~1.1mdv2009.1", rls:"MNDK_2009.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail", rpm:"fetchmail~6.2.5~3.8.C30mdk", rls:"MNDK_3.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmailconf", rpm:"fetchmailconf~6.2.5~3.8.C30mdk", rls:"MNDK_3.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail-daemon", rpm:"fetchmail-daemon~6.2.5~3.8.C30mdk", rls:"MNDK_3.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail", rpm:"fetchmail~6.2.5~11.7.20060mlcs4", rls:"MNDK_4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmailconf", rpm:"fetchmailconf~6.2.5~11.7.20060mlcs4", rls:"MNDK_4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail-daemon", rpm:"fetchmail-daemon~6.2.5~11.7.20060mlcs4", rls:"MNDK_4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail", rpm:"fetchmail~6.3.8~8.1mdvmes5", rls:"MNDK_mes5")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmailconf", rpm:"fetchmailconf~6.3.8~8.1mdvmes5", rls:"MNDK_mes5")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"fetchmail-daemon", rpm:"fetchmail-daemon~6.3.8~8.1mdvmes5", rls:"MNDK_mes5")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}

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06 Jul 2017 00:00Current
0.6Low risk
Vulners AI Score0.6
EPSS0.01855
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