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Bug 221981

Summary: CVE-2006-5867 fetchmail not enforcing TLS for POP3 properly
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component: fetchmailAssignee: Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0Keywords: Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,source=cve,public=20070104,reported=20070109
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2007-0018 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-01-31 17:20:37 UTC Type: ---
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Statement from mitr about the issues none

Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-01-09 14:16:31 UTC 
Description of problem:

fetchmail issued an advisoty fetchmail-SA-2006-02 fixing numerous issues
with TLS support. Two of them raise an opportiounity for an attacker to do
a MiM attack. See the attached e-mail from mitr for more details.
Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-01-09 14:16:31 UTC 
Created attachment 145163 [details]
Statement from mitr about the issues
Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-01-31 17:20:37 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html