CVE - CVE-2006-5867

CVE-ID
CVE-2006-5867	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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APPLE:APPLE-SA-2007-04-19 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html BID:21903 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21903 BUGTRAQ:20070105 fetchmail security announcement 2006-02 (CVE-2006-5867) URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456115/100/0/threaded BUGTRAQ:20070218 Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1259-1] New fetchmail packages fix information disclosure URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460528/100/0/threaded CERT:TA07-109A URL:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html CONFIRM:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391 CONFIRM:http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt CONFIRM:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-919 DEBIAN:DSA-1259 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1259 FEDORA:FEDORA-2007-041 URL:http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429 GENTOO:GLSA-200701-13 URL:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml MANDRIVA:MDKSA-2007:016 URL:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:016 OPENPKG:OpenPKG-SA-2007.004 URL:http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html OSVDB:31580 URL:http://osvdb.org/31580 OVAL:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10566 URL:https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10566 REDHAT:RHSA-2007:0018 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html SECTRACK:1017478 URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017478 SECUNIA:23631 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/23631 SECUNIA:23695 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/23695 SECUNIA:23714 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/23714 SECUNIA:23781 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/23781 SECUNIA:23804 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/23804 SECUNIA:23838 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/23838 SECUNIA:23923 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/23923 SECUNIA:24007 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/24007 SECUNIA:24151 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/24151 SECUNIA:24174 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/24174 SECUNIA:24284 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/24284 SECUNIA:24966 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/24966 SGI:20070201-01-P URL:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc SLACKWARE:SSA:2007-024-01 URL:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995 SUSE:SUSE-SR:2007:004 URL:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html TRUSTIX:2007-0007 URL:http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007 UBUNTU:USN-405-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-405-1 VUPEN:ADV-2007-0087 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087 VUPEN:ADV-2007-0088 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088 VUPEN:ADV-2007-1470 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20061114	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20061114)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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