Package: fetchmail Version: 6.2.5.4-1 Severity: important Wondering why only local mail had arrived in my mailbox for several days I found from the syslog that whenever fetchmail was started it got as far as message 46 from my ISPs POP3 server then crashed.
I used telnet to log in to the POP3 server directly and fetched message 46 which seemed to consist only of a single blank line: RETR 46 +OK . DELE 46 +OK I have been able to work around this by deleting message 46 and it is now fetching the other messages OK, but clearly someone could plant such a message in someone's mailbox to disrupt their mail service - a kind of DoS attack. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.4 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages fetchmail depends on: ii adduser 3.80 Add and remove users and groups ii base-files 3.1.9 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii debianutils 2.15.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-3 SSL shared libraries Versions of packages fetchmail recommends: ii ca-certificates 20050804 Common CA Certificates PEM files -- debconf information: * fetchmail/confwarn: * fetchmail/systemwide: true * fetchmail/initdefaultswarn: * fetchmail/runasroot: false fetchmail/fetchidswarn: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
