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TITLE:
fetchmail SSL Certificate Printing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38391

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38391/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in fetchmail, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
"sdump()" function in sdump.c when printing issuer and subject
information of X.509 certificates, which can be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code but
requires that fetchmail is run in verbose mode on a system where the
"char" type is signed and the user is tricked into connecting to a
malicious server.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 6.3.11, 6.3.12, and 6.3.13.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch (see vendor's advisory) or update to version 6.3.14 as
soon as it becomes available.
Also fixed in the SVN repository.
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1824

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://mknod.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/BRANCH_6-3/fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt

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