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fetchmail: denial of service

Package(s):fetchmail CVE #(s):CVE-2012-3482
Created:September 4, 2012 Updated:April 5, 2013
Description: From the Mandriva advisory:

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Fetchmail, a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility, performed base64 decoding of certain NTLM server responses. Upon sending the NTLM authentication request, Fetchmail did not check if the received response was actually part of NTLM protocol exchange, or server-side error message and session abort. A rogue NTML server could use this flaw to cause fetchmail executable crash.

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:149 2012-09-01
Mageia MGASA-2012-0259 2012-09-07
Fedora FEDORA-2012-14451 2012-10-02
Fedora FEDORA-2012-14462 2012-10-02
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:037 2013-04-05

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