Please review: New vuln.xml entry for ports/mail/fetchmail

Sun Oct 30 19:46:15 UTC 2005

Dear doc@,

could you please review the attached patch?

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Best regards / Viele Grüße,                             barner at FreeBSD.org
 Simon Barner                                                barner at gmx.de
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.868
diff -u -r1.868 vuln.xml

--- vuln.xml	27 Oct 2005 19:40:24 -0000	1.868
+++ vuln.xml	30 Oct 2005 19:47:37 -0000
@@ -34,6 +34,36 @@
 
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 <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1">
+  <vuln vid="baf74e0b-497a-11da-a4f4-0060084a00e5">
+    <topic>fetchmailconf -- password exposure through insecure file creation</topic>
+    <affects>
+      <package>
+	<name>fetchmail</name>
+	<range><lt>6.2.5.2_1</lt></range>
+      </package>
+    </affects>
+    <description> 
+      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+	<p>From the fetchmail home page:</p>
+	<blockquote cite="http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt">
+	  <p>The fetchmailconf program before and excluding version 1.49 opened the
+	    run control file, wrote the configuration to it, and only then changed
+	    the mode to 0600 (rw-------). Writing the file, which usually contains
+	    passwords, before making it unreadable to other users, can expose
+	    sensitive password information.</p>
+        </blockquote>
+      </body>
+    </description>
+    <references>
+      <cvename>CVE-2005-3088</cvename>
+      <url>http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt</url>
+    </references>
+    <dates>
+      <discovery>2005-10-21</discovery>
+      <entry>2005-10-30</entry>
+    </dates>
+  </vuln>
+  
   <vuln vid="1daea60a-4719-11da-b5c6-0004614cc33d">
     <topic>ruby -- vulnerability in the safe level settings</topic>
     <affects>
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