CVE-2006-5867 Information

Description

fetchmail before 6.3.6-rc4 does not properly enforce TLS and may transmit cleartext passwords over unsecured links if certain circumstances occur which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391 http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429 http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html http://osvdb.org/31580 http://secunia.com/advisories/23631 http://secunia.com/advisories/23695 http://secunia.com/advisories/23714 http://secunia.com/advisories/23781 http://secunia.com/advisories/23804 http://secunia.com/advisories/23838 http://secunia.com/advisories/23923 http://secunia.com/advisories/24007 http://secunia.com/advisories/24151 http://secunia.com/advisories/24174 http://secunia.com/advisories/24284 http://secunia.com/advisories/24966 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1017478 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1259 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:016 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456115/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460528/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21903 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-405-1 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-919 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10566