CVE-2006-5867

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2007-01-04
Bugzilla:
221984: CVE-2006-5867 fetchmail not enforcing TLS for POP3 properly

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5867 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (fetchmail) RHSA-2007:0018 2007-01-31
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (fetchmail) RHSA-2007:0018 2007-01-31
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (fetchmail) RHSA-2007:0018 2007-01-31

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