fetchmail-6.3.17 (released 2010-05-06, 25767 LoC):
# SECURITY FIX
* CVE-2010-1167: Fetchmail before release 6.3.17 did not properly sanitize
external input (mail headers and UID). When a multi-character locale (such as
# FEATURES
* Fetchmail now supports a --sslcertfile <file> option to specify a "CA bundle"
file (a file that contains trusted CA certificates). Since these bundled CA
files do not require c_rehash to be run, they are easier to use and immune to
OpenSSL library updates that affect the hash function.
* Fetchmail now supports a FETCHMAIL_INCLUDE_DEFAULT_X509_CA_CERTS
environment variable to force loading the default SSL CA certificate
locations even if --sslcertfile or --sslcertpath is used.
If neither option is in effect, fetchmail loads the default locations.
# REGRESSION FIX
* Fix string handling in rcfile scanner, which caused fetchmail to misparse a
run control file in certain circumstances. Fixes BerliOS bug #14257.
Patch by Michael Banack. This fixes a regression introduced before 6.3.0.
# BUG FIXES
* Plug memory leak when using a "defaults" entry in the run control file.
* Do not print SSL certificate mismatches unless verbose or --sslcertck is
enabled.
* Do not lose "set invisible" in fetchmailconf. (Michael Barnack)
# CHANGES
* Usability: SSL certificate chains are fully printed in -v -v mode, and there
are now helpful pointers to --sslcertpath and c_rehash for "unable to get
local issuer certificate" and self-signed certificates -- these usually hint
to missing root signing CAs in the certs directory.
* Several fixes for compiler (GCC, Intel C++, CLang) and autotools warnings
* Memory allocation failures will now cause abnormal program abort (SIGABRT),
no longer an exit with unspecified code.
# DOCUMENTATION
* Fix table of global option to read "set softbounce" where there used to be a
2nd copy of "set spambounce". Patch by Michael Banack, BerliOS Bug #17067.
* In the --sslcertpath description, mention that OpenSSL upgrade (and a 0.9.X
to 1.0.0 upgrade in particular) may require running c_rehash.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES
[zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
[cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
[nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
[fr] French (Fr\xc3<A9>d\xc3<A9>ric Marchal)
[de] German
[id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
[it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
[ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
[pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
[sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
[vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
(this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
current release information - however, it was stuck with 6.3.8 for a while)
* fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
(See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
* fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes
* the command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance,
fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running
fetchmail-6.3.16 (released 2010-04-06, 25574 LoC):
# BUG FIX
* Fix --interface option, broken in 6.3.15. Reported by Vladmimir Stavrinov.
Fixes Debian Bug #576717.
# CHANGE
* Call OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(). This is needed to support non-mandatory
and non-standard algorithms in certificates.
Sjoerd Simons, to fix Debian Bug #576430.
OpenSSL 0.9.8* does not load - for instance - the SHA256 digest by default.
Reported as OpenSSL RT#2224.
fetchmail-6.3.15 (released 2010-03-28, 25572 LoC):
# FEATURE
* Fetchmail now supports a bad-header command line or rcfile option that takes
exactly one argument, accept or reject (default). This specifies how messages
with bad headers retrieved from the current server are to be treated.
# BUG FIXES
* In the rcfile, recognize "local" as abbreviation for "localdomains", as
documented. The short form has not ever worked since this feature was added in
January 1997. Reported by Fr\xc3<A9>d\xc3<A9>ric Marchal.
* Do not close stdout when using mda and "bsmtp -" at the same time.
* Log operating system errors when BSMTP writes fail.
* Fix verbose mode progress formatting regression from 6.3.10; SMTP trace lines
were no longer on a line of their own. Reported by Melchior Franz.
* Check seteuid() return value and abort running MDA if switch fails.
* Set global flags in a consistent manner. Make --nosoftbounce and
--nobounce work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
Reported and fix confirmed working by N.J. Mann. (Sunil Shetye)
* Properly import h_errno declarations, even on systems where h_errno isn't a
macro. (Adds ./configure check, fixes Cygwin dllimport warnings.)
# CHANGES
* The repository has been converted and moved from the Subversion (SVN) format
kindly hosted by Graham Wilson over the past years to Git format hosted on
Gitorious.org. My deepest thanks to Graham Wilson for this service that
kept us going when BerliOS's Subversion service was faulty in its early days.
* This opportunity was used to convert BRANCH_6-2 and BRANCH_1-9-9 to
GnuPG-signed tags, as a sign that these are now closed.
* The outdated SVN trunk is now called "oldtrunk" in Git just to save the work
for future reference. All development in the past few years was on BRANCH_6-3.
* master was branched from BRANCH_6-3. BRANCH_6-3 is now obsolete (and in fact
was also converted to a tag to record where the conversion from SVN to Git
took place).
* "make check" now skips HTML validation if xmllint or XHTML DTD are missing.
# DOCUMENTATION
* Web site and documentation were adjusted to reflect the SVN->Git move.
* The fetchmail manual page is now much clearer on the user id switching
(seteuid) when using --mda while running as the super user.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES, by language name
* [zh_CN] Chinese (Simplified), by Ji Zheng-Yu
* [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
* [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
* [fr] French, by Fr\xc3<A9>d\xc3<A9>ric Marchal
* [de] German
* [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
* [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
* [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
* [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
* [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
fetchmail 6.3.14 (released 2010-02-05, 25487 LoC):
# SECURITY FIXES
* SSL/TLS certificate information is now also reported properly on computers
that consider the "char" type signed. Fixes malloc() buffer overrun.
Workaround for older versions: do not use verbose mode.
See fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
# BUG FIXES
* The IMAP client no longer skips messages from several IMAP servers including
Dovecot if fetchmail's "idle" is in use. Causes were that fetchmail (a)
ignored some untagged responses when it should not (b) relied on EXISTS
messages in response to EXPUNGE, which aren't mandated by RFC-3501 (the IMAP
standard) and aren't sent by Dovecot either.
Fix by Sunil Shetye (the fix also consolidates IMAP response handling,
improving overall robustness of the IMAP client), bug report and testing by
Matt Doran, with further hints from Timo Sirainen.
* The SMTP client now recovers from errors (such as servers dropping the
connection after errors) when sending an RSET command.
Fix by Sunil Shetye. Report by James Moe.
* The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN" rather than "SEARCH UNSEEN NOT
DELETED" again on IMAP2, to fix a regression in fetchmail 6.2.5 reported by
Will Stringer in June 2004. (Sunil Shetye)
* The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED" on IMAP4 and IMAP4r1
servers (Sunil Shetye).
* Workaround: The IMAP client now falls back to "FETCH n:m FLAGS" if the server
does not support "SEARCH". (Sunil Shetye)
* The IMAP client now requests message numbers in batches of 1,000 to avoid
problems if there are more than 1860 unseen messages. (Sunil Shetye)
Note that this wasn't security relevant because fetchmail would only read up
to the maximum buffer size and leave the remainder of the string unread, going
out of synch afterwards.
* Stricter validation of IMAP responses containing byte or message counts.
# CHANGES
* Only include gssapi.h if we're not including gssapi/gssapi.h, to fix a FreeBSD
compiler warning about gssapi.h being obsolete.
# DOCUMENTATION
* The README.SSL document was revised for grammar, spelling, and clarity.
Courtesy of Robert Mullin.
fetchmail 6.3.13 (released 2009-10-30, 25333 LoC):
# REGRESSION FIXES
* The multiline SMTP error fix in release 6.3.12 caused fetchmail to lose
message codes 400..599 and treat all of these as temporary error. This would
cause messages to be left on the server even if softbounce was turned off.
Reported by Thomas Jarosch.
fetchmail 6.3.12 (released 2009-10-05):
# REGRESSION FIXES
* The CVS-2009-2666 fix in fetchmail release 6.3.11 caused a free() of
unallocated memory on SSL connections, which caused crashes or program aborts
on some systems (depending on how initialization and free() of unallocated
memory is handled in compiler and libc).
Workaround for older versions: run in verbose mode.
Patch courtesy of Thomas Heinz, fixes Gentoo Bug #280760.
This regression affected only the 6.3.11 release, but not the patch that was
part of the security announcement fetchmail-SA-2009-01.
# BUG FIXES
* Fix error reporting for GSSAPI on Heimdal (h5l) Kerberos.
* Look for MD5_Init in libcrypto rather than libssl, fixes Gentoo Kerberos
builds; fixes upstream parts of Gentoo Bugs #231400 and #185652, and fixes
BerliOS Bug #16134.
* Report multiline SMTP errors properly, reported by Earl Chew; fixes Debian Bug
#529899, reported by Akihiro Terasaki.
Note: This fix introduced a regression, fixed in 6.3.13.
* Replace control characters in SMTP replies by '?'.
* Fetchmailconf: Fix descriptions for smtpaddress and smtpname options;
smtpaddress is for RCPT TO, not MAIL FROM. Found by Gerard Seibert.
...as well as translation updates in all three releases.
- Security fixes for CVE-2009-2666, CVE-2007-4565 and CVE-2008-2711.
- Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default,
to match historic documentation. It does this by adding a new
"softbounce" option.
- A lot bug fixes and improvements.
"--enable-inet6" or "--disble-inet6 anymore and decides automatically
whether to enable IPv6 support.
Pointed out by Matthias Andree in private e-mail.
Changes since version 6.3.6:
- Make the APOP challenge parser more distrustful and have it reject
challenges that do not conform to RFC-822 msg-id format, in the hope
to make mounting man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) against APOP a bit
more difficult. (CVE-2007-1558)
- Fix pluralization of oversized-message warning mails.
- Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing
"recommended:" in bold.
- Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication
attempt after a failed opportunistic TLS upgrade.
- Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes
section.
- If SOCKS support was compiled in, add 'socks' to the feature_options
Python list emitted in --configdump.
- Do not crash with a null pointer dereference when opening the BSMTP file
fails. Improve error checking and reporting.
- Make BSMTP output actually work, it would persistently fail with SOCKET
error after writing the first header.
- Fix KPOP.
- Fix repoll when server disconnects after opportunistic TLS failed for
POP3.
The list of changes since version 6.2.5.5 is too large to mention here.
The new version provides a fix for the vulnerability reported in the
fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt advisory.
PKGLOCALEDIR and which install their locale files directly under
${PREFIX}/${PKGLOCALEDIR} and sort the PLIST file entries. From now
on, pkgsrc/mk/plist/plist-locale.awk will automatically handle
transforming the PLIST to refer to the correct locale directory.
Change homepage to http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ and update MASTER_SITES.
Changes introduced since 6.2.5:
fetchmail-6.2.5.X is a security fix branch that forked off
fetchmail-6.2.5. It does not change for anything but security and the
most severe bug fixes. Note that no 6.2.5.X security audits are planned
except when a particular bug is reported, and that 6.2.5.X is unsafe to
use on some systems, particularly those that lack a *working and secure*
snprintf implementation.
The fetchmail 6.2.5.X branch will be discontinued early in 2006.
fetchmail-6.2.5.5 2005-12-19 Matthias Andree
* SECURITY FIX CVE-2005-4348: fix null pointer dereference in
multidrop mode when the message is empty. Reported by Daniel Drake
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.fetchmail.user/7573> and others
(Debian Bug #343836). Fix by Sunil Shetye.
* Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow.
* Add fetchmail-SA-2005-{01,02,03}.txt
fetchmail-6.2.5.4 2005-11-13 Matthias Andree
* Also ship pre-built rcfile_y.[ch] for systems that don't have flex,
yacc or bison.
* On FreeBSD, add /usr/local/include to CPPFLAGS so that libintl.h is found.
* Avoid automatically picking up HESIOD implementations that lack
hesiod_getmailhost, such as the one in FreeBSD's base system.
* Fix makedepend for separated build (where the build is not run from
the source directory), but prevent packaging from separated build, it
yields bogus results.
* Fix resolv.h autodetection.
* Add +HESIOD to version printout if appropriate.
fetchmail-6.2.5.3 2005-11-12 Matthias Andree
* SECURITY FIX CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf: fix password exposure: use
umask 077 before opening output file and restore umask later.
* Critical fix: fix IMAP timeouts, counting message count down on
servers that do not send EXISTS counts after EXPUNGE. Debian Bug#314509.
* Ship pre-built rcfile_l.c for systems that don't have flex.
* Build environment: Update included gettext. Fix
--with-included-gettext. Fix parallel build (make -j). Fix "always
rebuild fetchmail" syndrome.
* Do not link against -ll or -lfl (not needed).
fetchmail-6.2.5.2
(patch Fri Jul 22 01:52 GMT 2005,
tarball Sat Jul 23 21:34 GMT 2005)
* README: Added a note about release status - READ IT!
* Note: Due to a Makefile.in bug, you may need to use GNU make.
* SECURITY FIX CVE-2005-2335: truncate UIDL replies, lest malicious or
compromised POP3 servers overflow fetchmail's stack. Debian bug
#212762. This is a remote root exploit.
Thanks: Miloslav Trmac for pointing out the fix in 6.2.5.1 was buggy.
Thanks: Ludwig Nussel for a much simpler fix.
* Critical fix: omit blank between MAIL FROM: and <user@example.org>,
as this causes mail loss with some listeners.
* Fix: POP2 driver wouldn't properly check authentication failure.
* Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP.
The added patches add a prefix "fm_" to lock related finctions, to avoid name
clash with darwin lock functions. Link with -lresolv under darwin.
(thanks scole_at_sdf.lonestar.org for the patches)
Bump PKGREVISION
For more details have a look at
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
Changes listed within the NEWS file since 6.2.5:
fetchmail-6.2.5.2 (Fri Jul 22 01:52 GMT 2005):
* NOTE: Due to a Makefile.in bug, you may need to use GNU make.
* SECURITY FIX: truncate UIDL replies, lest malicious or compromised
POP3 servers overflow fetchmail's stack. Debian bug #212762.
This is a remote root exploit. CVE Name: CAN-2005-2335.
Thanks: Miloslav Trmac for pointing out the fix in 6.2.5.1 was buggy.
Thanks: Ludwig Nussel for a much simpler fix.
* Critical fix: omit blank between MAIL FROM: and <user@example.org>,
as this causes mail loss with some listeners.
* Fix: POP2 driver wouldn't properly check authentication failure.
* Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP.
And always is defined as share/examples/rc.d
which was the default before.
This rc.d scripts are not automatically added to PLISTs now also.
So add to each corresponding PLIST as required.
This was discussed on tech-pkg in late January and late April.
Todo: remove the RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR uses in MESSAGES and elsewhere
and remove the RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR itself.
- use kerberos instead of kerberos5 as PKG_SUPPORTED_OPTIONS
to keep compliance with other kerberos aware packages in pkgsrc
- use the krb5 buildlink environment
Introduce support for gssapi which was also requested in pr pkg/26170 with
the according PKG_SUPPORTED_OPTIONS. gssapi will imply kerberos5.
under share/examples/rc.d. The variable name already was named
RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR.
This is from ideas from Greg Woods and others.
Also bumped PKGREVISION for all packages using RCD_SCRIPTS mechanism
(as requested by wiz).
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
into the bsd.options.mk framework. Instead of appending to
${PKG_OPTIONS_VAR}, it appends to PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS. This causes
the default options to be the union of PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS and any
old USE_* and FOO_USE_* settings.
This fixes PR pkg/26590.
