Comment 17 for bug 240549

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package fetchmail - 6.3.8-11ubuntu3

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fetchmail (6.3.8-11ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * SECURITY FIX for CVE-2008-2711 (LP: #240549)
    - Corrects a denial of service attack that can crash fetchmail when
      running in -v -v mode via malformed mail messages with long headers
  * patches/06_fix_CVE-2008-2711_DoS.patch
    - corrects CVE-2008-2711

 -- Michael Casadevall <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:05:46 -0400