Executive Summary

Summary
Title getmail: Information disclosure
Informations
Name GLSA-201412-50 First vendor Publication 2014-12-28
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-12-28
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in getmail, allowing remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Background

getmail is a POP3 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and mbox delivery.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in getmail. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could cause a man-in-the-middle attack via multiple vectors to obtain sensitive information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All getmail users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/getmail-4.46.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-7273 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-7273
[ 2 ] CVE-2014-7274 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-7274
[ 3 ] CVE-2014-7275 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-7275

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-50.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-50.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28343
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28343
Title: DSA-3091-1 -- getmail4 security update
Description: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in getmail4, a mail retriever with support for POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS, that could allow man-in-the-middle attacks.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3091-1
CVE-2014-7273
CVE-2014-7274
CVE-2014-7275
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
 Product(s): getmail4
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 64

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-106.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-29 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-50.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-09 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3091.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-23 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-598.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-12-30 13:25:14
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-28 21:23:27
  • First insertion