ports/116012: [PATCH] security/vuxml: add CVE-2007-4565 (fetchmail DoS)

Sun Sep 2 12:20:02 UTC 2007

>Number:         116012
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] security/vuxml: add CVE-2007-4565 (fetchmail DoS)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Sep 02 12:20:02 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Matthias Andree
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD rho.emma.line.org 6.2-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 #1: Fri Aug 31 14:58:52 CEST 2007
>Description:
Document fetchmail denial of service vulnerability.

Port maintainer (secteam at FreeBSD.org) is cc'd.

Generated with FreeBSD Port Tools 0.77
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

--- vuxml-1.1_1.patch begins here ---
diff -ruN --exclude=CVS /usr/ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml /usr/home/emma/ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
--- /usr/ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml	Sat Sep  1 18:04:23 2007
+++ /usr/home/emma/ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml	Sun Sep  2 13:29:56 2007
@@ -34,6 +34,40 @@
 
 -->
 <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1">
+  <vuln vid="45500f74-5947-11dc-87c1-000e2e5785ad">
+    <topic>fetchmail -- denial of service on reject of local warning message</topic>
+    <affects>
+      <package>
+	<name>fetchmail</name>
+	<range><ge>4.6.8</ge><lt>6.3.8_4</lt></range>
+      </package>
+    </affects>
+    <description>
+      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+	<p>Matthias Andree reports:</p>
+	<blockquote cite="http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt">
+	  <p>fetchmail will generate warning messages in certain
+	    circumstances (for instance, when leaving oversized messages
+	    on the server or login to the upstream fails) and send them
+	    to the local postmaster or the user running it.</p>
+
+	  <p>If this warning message is then refused by the SMTP listener
+	    that fetchmail is forwarding the message to, fetchmail
+	    crashes and does not collect further messages until it is
+	    restarted.</p>
+	</blockquote>
+      </body>
+    </description>
+    <references>
+      <cvename>CVE-2007-4565</cvename>
+      <url>http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt</url>
+    </references>
+    <dates>
+      <discovery>2007-07-29</discovery>
+      <entry>2007-09-02</entry>
+    </dates>
+  </vuln>
+
   <vuln vid="d944719e-42f4-4864-89ed-f045b541919f">
     <topic>gtar -- Directory traversal vulnerability</topic>
     <affects>
--- vuxml-1.1_1.patch ends here ---

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