CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : fetchmail (CESA-2007:0385)

An updated fetchmail package that fixes a security bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended for use...

fetchmail/mutt/evolution/...: APOP password disclosure vulnerability

The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle MITM attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including 1 Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and...

Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2007-005)

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.3 that does not have Security Update 2007-005 applied. This update fixes security flaws in the following applications : Alias Manager BIND CoreGraphics crontabs fetchmail file iChat mDNSResponder PPP ruby screen texinfo VPN C Tenable...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fetchmail (MDKSA-2007:105)

The APOP functionality in fetchmail's POP3 client implementation was validating the APOP challenge too lightly, accepting random garbage as a POP3 server's APOP challenge, rather than insisting it conform to RFC-822 specifications. As a result of this flaw, it made man-in-the-middle attacks easie...

fetchmail/mutt/evolution/...: APOP password disclosure vulnerability

The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle MITM attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including 1 Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and...

CVE-2007-1558

The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle MITM attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including 1 Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and...

Code injection

The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle MITM attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including 1 Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and...

CVE-2007-1558

CVE-2007-1558 describes a cryptographic weakness in APOP authentication that lowers MITM attack cost to recover passwords. Connected advisories show this affects multiple mail clients (e.g., Thunderbird/Icedove, Iceape, fetchmail) and related POP/ALOP implementations. Debian DSA-1305-1 and CentOS...

CVE-2007-1558: Undefined Security Weakness

The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle MITM attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including 1 Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and...

FreeBSD : fetchmail -- insecure APOP authentication (f1c4d133-e6d3-11db-99ea-0060084a00e5)

Matthias Andree reports : The POP3 standard, currently RFC-1939, has specified an optional, MD5-based authentication scheme called 'APOP' which no longer should be considered secure. Additionally, fetchmail's POP3 client implementation has been validating the APOP challenge too lightly and accept...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 6 package fetchmail version 6.3.8-alt1

April 7, 2007 Michael Shigorin 6.3.8-alt1 - 6.3.8 + APOP was strengthened to make the CVE-2007-1558 attack harder + crash when opening the BSMTP output file failed was fixed + other fixes and improvements...

fetchmail -- insecure APOP authentication

Matthias Andree reports: The POP3 standard, currently RFC-1939, has specified an optional, MD5-based authentication scheme called "APOP" which no longer should be considered secure. Additionally, fetchmail's POP3 client implementation has been validating the APOP challenge too lightly and accepte...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fetchmail (MDKSA-2007:016)

Fetchmail before 6.3.6-rc4 does not properly enforce TLS and may transmit cleartext passwords over unsecured links if certain circumstances occur, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via man-in-the-middle MITM attacks. The updated packages have been patched to correct th...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 11.0 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 : fetchmail (SSA:2007-024-01)

New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix a security issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2007-024-01. The text...

Debian DSA-1259-1 : fetchmail - programming error

Isaac Wilcox discovered that fetchmail, a popular mail retrieval and forwarding utility, insufficiently enforces encryption of connections, which might lead to information disclosure. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1259-1] New fetchmail packages fix information disclosure

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1259-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff February 14th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

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RHEL 2.1 / 3 / 4 : fetchmail (RHSA-2007:0018)

Updated fetchmail packages that fix two security issues are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. A denial of service flaw was found when Fetchmail was run in...

CentOS 3 / 4 : fetchmail (CESA-2007:0018)

Updated fetchmail packages that fix two security issues are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. A denial of service flaw was found when Fetchmail was run in...

Moderate: fetchmail security update

6.2.5-6.el4.5 - Fix a KPOP support regression Related: 221985 223661 6.2.5-6.el4.4 - Fix V2,V3,V4 of CAN-2006-5867 Resolves: 221985 6.2.5-6.el4.3 - Fix CAN-2005-4348 176266 - Add BuildRequires: gettext-devel 164351 6.2.5-6.el4.1 - Fix CAN-2005-2335 163816, patch by Ludwig Nussel...