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Date:      15 Jun 2001 08:19:34 -0000
From:      scorpio@drkshdw.org
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:        ve@sci.fi
Subject:   ports/28170: UPDATE to mail/fetchmail
Message-ID:  <20010615081934.91822.qmail@mail.drkshdw.org>

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>Number:         28170
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       SECURITY UPDATE to mail/fetchmail
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 15 01:20:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jeff Palmer
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD jeff.isni.net 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #4: Wed May 16 12:55:48 EDT 2001
     root@jeff.isni.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FreeBSD  i386

>Description:

Security update.
Updated fetchmail to the latest release to fix buffer overflow conditions.

From webpage:
fetchmail-5.8.6 (Tue Jun 12 08:16:54 EDT 2001), 20676 lines:

* Reject candidate headers for the MAIL FROM address that have \n in them.
* Add capability to insert poll trace data in the Received line.
* HMH's patch to prevent buffer overflow due to long headers. Addresses
  Debian bug #100394.
* Brendan Kehoe's patch to avoid doing DNS lookups on skip entries.


        

>How-To-Repeat:
        
>Fix:

        
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/mail/fetchmail/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.124
diff -u -r1.124 Makefile
--- Makefile	2001/05/31 07:08:13	1.124
+++ Makefile	2001/06/15 08:16:43
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # want fetchmailconf to work, define WITH_X11
 
 PORTNAME=	fetchmail
-PORTVERSION=	5.8.5
+PORTVERSION=	5.8.6
 CATEGORIES=	mail ipv6
 MASTER_SITES=	http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/ \
 		ftp://ftp.ccil.org/pub/esr/fetchmail/
Index: distinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/mail/fetchmail/distinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.102
diff -u -r1.102 distinfo
--- distinfo	2001/05/31 07:08:13	1.102
+++ distinfo	2001/06/15 08:16:43
@@ -1 +1 @@
-MD5 (fetchmail-5.8.5.tar.gz) = 980e67fedcd02578d45fd939fe1c1643
+MD5 (fetchmail-5.8.6.tar.gz) = 576a9fd8d092706cd74d74d742c7d543
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