[Devil-linux-software] [fmII] fetchmail 6.3.9 released (Stable branch)

[<no...@fr...>]

This email is to inform you about the release of version '6.3.9' of
'fetchmail' through freshmeat.net. All URLs and other useful information
can be found at

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/fetchmail/

The changes in this release are as follows:
A denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereference, reported as
CVE-2007-4565, was fixed. A denial of service in extra verbose (-v -v)
mode, reported as CVE-2008-2711, was fixed. A severe memory leak on
failed SSL connection attempts was stuffed. Several other bugs were
fixed. Documentation was improved. Translations were updated.  

Release focus:
9 - Major security fixes 

Project added:
Sun, Jan 11th 1998 22:39 (10 years, 11 months ago)

Project description:
Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented
remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over
on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports
every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3,
RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN, ODMR, SMTP,
LMTP, and local delivery agents. 

Trove categories:
[Environment         ] Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience   ] End Users/Desktop
[License             ] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic               ] Communications :: Email 

If you would like to cancel subscription to releases of this project,
login to freshmeat.net and choose 'home' from the personal menubar at the
top of the page. You'll be presented with a list of projects and categories
you're subscribed to in the right column, which you may cancel by
highlighting the project or category in question and clicking the 'delete'
button.

Sincerely,
freshmeat.net