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.
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http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt cve-icon cve-icon
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http://secunia.com/advisories/24174 cve-icon cve-icon
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-919 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5867 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10566 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5867 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-01-09T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:04:55.652Z

Reserved: 2006-11-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-5867

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-17T21:45:35.950

Link: CVE-2006-5867

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2007-01-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-5867 - Bugzilla