PT-2005-3918 · Fetchmail · Fetchmail+1

Thomas Wolff · Published 2005-10-27 · Updated 2018-10-03 · CVE-2005-3088

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions fetchmail versions 6.2.0 through 6.2.5.2

Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information, such as passwords, due to configuration files being created with insecure world-readable permissions by fetchmailconf before version 1.49.

Recommendations For fetchmail versions 6.2.0 through 6.2.5.2, update fetchmailconf to version 1.49 or later to ensure configuration files are created with secure permissions.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-3088

DSA-900-3

Affected Products

Fetchmail

Fetchmailconf

References · 28

• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-823.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-3088 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/215-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-3088 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18895 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17349 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17495 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-06.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-3088 · Vendor Advisory
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.443499 · Vendor Advisory
• http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:209 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-3088 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17293 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17491 · Vendor Advisory