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CVE-2021-39272

Description

Fetchmail before 6.4.22 fails to enforce STARTTLS session encryption in some circumstances, such as a certain situation with IMAP and PREAUTH. #### Bugs * <https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190069> * <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993163> #### Notes Author| Note ---|--- [sbeattie](<https://launchpad.net/~sbeattie>) | when backporting, upstream is asking to make sure we update documentation covering the fixes as well [mdeslaur](<https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur>) | only an issue with IMAP PREAUTH sessions and STARTTLS. It is recommended to switch to implicit TLS


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
ubuntu 20.04 fetchmail any
ubuntu 22.04 fetchmail any
ubuntu upstream fetchmail any
ubuntu upstream fetchmail 6.4.22
ubuntu 16.04 fetchmail any

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