[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: fetchmail-6.3.11-4.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-3800
2010-03-06 02:57:32
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Name        : fetchmail
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 6.3.11
Release     : 4.fc12
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:

The updated package fixes CVE-2010-0562.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb  9 2010 Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek at redhat.com> - 6.3.11-4
- Fix CVE-2010-0562
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #561839 - CVE-2010-0562 fetchmail: (verbose mode) Heap overflow by formating byte string into its printable representation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561839
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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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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