[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: fetchmail-6.3.8-7.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-5789
2008-06-28 20:28:02
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Name        : fetchmail
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 6.3.8
Release     : 7.fc9
URL         : http://fetchmail.berlios.de/
Summary     : A remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility
Description :
Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended
for use over on-demand TCP/IP links, like SLIP or PPP connections.
Fetchmail supports every remote-mail protocol currently in use on the
Internet (POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all IMAPs, ESMTP ETRN, IPv6,
and IPSEC) for retrieval. Then Fetchmail forwards the mail through
SMTP so you can read it through your favorite mail client.

Install fetchmail if you need to retrieve mail over SLIP or PPP
connections.

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Update Information:

http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun 27 2008 Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek at redhat.com> - 6.3.8-7
- Fix CVE-2008-2711
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #451758 - CVE-2008-2711 fetchmail: Crash in large log messages in verbose mode
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451758
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update fetchmail' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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