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IT SECURITY :: ADVISORY
Vendor: Fedora
Vendor ID: FEDORA-2005-1112
Title: Libc-client input sanitising FC3
Publishing date: December 8, 2005
Published by: Nikola Strahija
Other advisories by Fedora:
Multiple Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Racoon daemon remote crash
Squirrelmail security issues
X.org arbitrary code execution
Firefox several security issues
CVE: CVE-2005-2933
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Security Advisory info: The library contains a bug in its mail_valid_net_parse() function. If an application allows untrusted input to be supplied to this function, its stack may become corrupted. This update backports the fix from imap-2004g which resolves this issue. Fedora Core 3.



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-1112
2005-12-08
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : libc-client
Version : 2002e
Release : 13
Summary : C-client mail access routines for IMAP and POP protocols
Description :
C-client is a common API for accessing mailboxes. It is used internally by
the popular PINE mail reader, the University of Washington's IMAP server
and PHP.

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Update Information:

The c-client library provides an API which allows
applications to access and manipulate remote mail boxes.

The library contains a bug in its mail_valid_net_parse()
function. If an application allows untrusted input to be
supplied to this function, its stack may become corrupted.
This update backports the fix from imap-2004g which resolves
this issue.
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* Wed Nov 23 2005 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 2002e-13
- apply fix for CVE-2005-2933: buffer overflow (#171345)

* Wed Nov 9 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 2002e-12
- rebuilt against new openssl

* Sat Oct 15 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com>
- fix to rebuild at least, seems the way to specify the
include dir is a bit broken

* Wed Mar 2 2005 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> 2002e-10
- rebuild

* Wed Mar 2 2005 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> 2002e-9
- rebuilt


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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

2701b151823333732d18968f5aaa4427 SRPMS/libc-client-2002e-13.src.rpm
1eff60252308fd6098f38c6b53012070 x86_64/libc-client-2002e-13.x86_64.rpm
3db455a4372570e1c2ae720eb83a6daf x86_64/libc-client-devel-2002e-13.x86_64.rpm
d95200d605b34293745146982709360a x86_64/debug/libc-client-debuginfo-2002e-13.x86_64.rpm
f047e8de3baa36327bc2212bc4fe54e9 x86_64/libc-client-2002e-13.i386.rpm
f047e8de3baa36327bc2212bc4fe54e9 i386/libc-client-2002e-13.i386.rpm
1b2df02097ae24cc8553c923effcfab8 i386/libc-client-devel-2002e-13.i386.rpm
98cb42f9d8d4ba23f1b35f7b1d24dd7b i386/debug/libc-client-debuginfo-2002e-13.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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