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Special Forums Cybersecurity Security Advisories (RSS) Mandriva: Updated fetchmail packages fix DoS vulnerability Post 302207597 by Linux Bot on Friday 20th of June 2008 10:40:04 AM
Old 06-20-2008
Mandriva: Updated fetchmail packages fix DoS vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: A flaw in fetchmail was discovered that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and persistent mail failure) via a malformed message with long headers. The crash only occured when fetchmail was called in '-v -v' mode (CVE-2008-2711). The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.

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WMAIL(1)							   User Commands							  WMAIL(1)

NAME
wmail - watches your inbox SYNOPSIS
wmail [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION
wmail is a Window Maker docklet watching your inbox, which is either a ordinary mbox or a directory conforming to qmails Maildir format. It provides a nice little GUI displaying some useful pieces of information about your inbox. -display <string> display to use -c, --command <string> command to run on button-click ("xterm -e mail" is default) -i, --intervall <number> number of seconds between mail-status updates (1 is default) -f, --familyname tickers the family-name if available -fps, --frames <number> ticker frames per second -s, --shortname tickers the nickname (all before the '@') -sc, --symbolcolor <string> symbol color-name -fc, --fontcolor <string> ticker-font color-name -bc, --backcolor <string> backlight color-name -oc, --offcolor <string> off-light color-name -bg, --background <string> frame-background for non-shaped window -ns, --noshape make the dockapp non-shaped (combine with -w) -n, --new forces wmail to show new mail exclusively -mb, --mailbox <string> specify another mailbox ($MAIL is default) -e, --execute <string> command to execute when receiving a new mail -sf, --statusfield consider the status-field of the mail header to distinguish unread mails -rs, --readstatus <string> status field content that your client uses to mark read mails -fn, --tickerfont <string> use specified X11 font to draw the ticker -h, --help shows this help text and exit -v, --version shows program version and exit -w, --windowed runs the application in windowed mode ENVIRONMENT
wmail recognizes the following environment variables: $MAIL The location of the inbox you are using NOTES
Other mailing mechanisms like POP or IMAP are not supported. Use a tool like fetchmail to retrieve POP or IMAP based mail. AUTHORS
wmail was written by Sven Geisenhainer. This man page was written by Felipe Augusto van de Wiel. SEE ALSO
fetchmail(1). July 2006 wmail v2.0 (C) 2000~2002 Sven Geisenhainer WMAIL(1)
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