Slackware alert SSA:2009-218-01 (fetchmail)
| From: | Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com> | |
| To: | slackware-security@slackware.com | |
| Subject: | [slackware-security] fetchmail (SSA:2009-218-01) | |
| Date: | Thu, 6 Aug 2009 01:10:24 -0700 (PDT) | |
| Message-ID: | <alpine.LNX.1.10.0908060110090.5188@bob.slackware.com> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] fetchmail (SSA:2009-218-01) New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to a fix security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2666 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ n/fetchmail-6.3.11-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz: Upgraded. This update fixes an SSL NUL prefix impersonation attack through NULs in a part of a X.509 certificate's CommonName and subjectAltName fields. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2666 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 8.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patch... Updated package for Slackware 9.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patch... Updated package for Slackware 9.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/patch... Updated package for Slackware 10.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patc... Updated package for Slackware 10.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.1/patc... Updated package for Slackware 10.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patc... Updated package for Slackware 11.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patc... Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patc... Updated package for Slackware 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patc... Updated package for Slackware 12.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patc... Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/s... Updated package for Slackware64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current... MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 8.1 package: 62eb603b7595bd47231ef334e3e21bf9 fetchmail-6.3.11-i386-1_slack8.1.tgz Slackware 9.0 package: b4e28a6d5b1f6c7981077d095e7d5659 fetchmail-6.3.11-i386-1_slack9.0.tgz Slackware 9.1 package: 4a970c015174591e228d6e971709d6cf fetchmail-6.3.11-i486-1_slack9.1.tgz Slackware 10.0 package: 23aebad2dfee1e170cfd1179afbbe90f fetchmail-6.3.11-i486-1_slack10.0.tgz Slackware 10.1 package: 201a29f85084cf0ba2c9e362ae12cdb1 fetchmail-6.3.11-i486-1_slack10.1.tgz Slackware 10.2 package: 03c425a6c391bbe7d8fe64d97097c664 fetchmail-6.3.11-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz Slackware 11.0 package: 4eb1710ec33b4d2770df6b93734519d0 fetchmail-6.3.11-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz Slackware 12.0 package: 36797994f28beaf9bf8a8bed9e12a144 fetchmail-6.3.11-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Slackware 12.1 package: 916a5de06359934dd627dad6cc0918aa fetchmail-6.3.11-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Slackware 12.2 package: a48d7ec3f5eea1df790221c49600b799 fetchmail-6.3.11-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz Slackware -current package: 8a9b73e382b8d9bbb2c1db0ca1759112 fetchmail-6.3.11-i486-1.txz Slackware64 -current package: 890c4912a191c6f90df12a2e431ab340 fetchmail-6.3.11-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg fetchmail-6.3.11-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security@slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To leave the slackware-security mailing list: | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Send an email to majordomo@slackware.com with this text in the body of | | the email message: | | | | unsubscribe slackware-security | | | | You will get a confirmation message back containing instructions to | | complete the process. Please do not reply to this email address. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkp6cfUACgkQakRjwEAQIjO7aACgkukZuLzRKvRUXLMPxud16FJm 7soAn3Hf17GdJ/mSmT4wtEQ9k53G41an =WVx5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----