Advisories » MGASA-2021-0391

Updated fetchmail packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Aug 2021
Modification date: 06 Aug 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-36386

Description

Updated fetchmail packages fix security vulnerability:

report_vbuild in report.c in Fetchmail before 6.4.20 sometimes omits
initialization of the vsnprintf va_list argument, which might allow mail
servers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other
impact via long error messages (CVE-2021-36386).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29297
• https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2021-01.txt
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-36386

SRPMS

8/core

• fetchmail-6.4.8-4.1.mga8