{"id":"MGASA-2025-0238","summary":"Updated fetchmail package fixes security vulnerability","details":"It was discovered that fetchmail's SMTP client, when configured to\nauthenticate, is susceptible to a protocol violation where, when a\ntrusted but malicious or malfunctioning SMTP server responds to an\nauthentication request with a \"334\" code but without a following blank\non the line, it will attempt to start reading from memory address 0x1 to\nparse the server's SASL challenge. This event will usually cause a crash\nof fetchmail (CVE-2025-61962).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T04:42:53.802343280Z","published":"2025-10-14T17:45:08Z","upstream":["CVE-2025-61962"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0238.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34644"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/03/2"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/04/3"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"fetchmail","ecosystem":"Mageia:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/fetchmail?arch=source&distro=mageia-9"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.5.6-1.mga9"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0238.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}