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From: Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To: slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject: [slackware-security] fetchmail (SSA:2025-276-01)
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 13:54:50 -0700 (PDT)
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[slackware-security]  fetchmail (SSA:2025-276-01)

New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to
fix a security issue.


Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
+--------------------------+
patches/packages/fetchmail-6.4.27-i586-2_slack15.0.txz:  Rebuilt.
  This update fixes a security issue:
  fetchmail SMTP client can crash when authenticating.
  For more information, see:
    https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2025-01.txt
  (* Security fix *)
+--------------------------+


Where to find the new packages:
+-----------------------------+

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project!  :-)

Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/fetchmail-6.4.27-i586-2_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/fetchmail-6.4.27-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/fetchmail-6.5.6-i686-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/fetchmail-6.5.6-x86_64-1.txz


MD5 signatures:
+-------------+

Slackware 15.0 package:
3f5bd049e96d5620d6061faf2f69299c  fetchmail-6.4.27-i586-2_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
7caa37a5bbc8608ab85ae2da47b8bfb6  fetchmail-6.4.27-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
6491042fe061d9a3ca05bdb0046ae49f  n/fetchmail-6.5.6-i686-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
7ff57dfd85af3e0a8bb84e836d9f8bcd  n/fetchmail-6.5.6-x86_64-1.txz


Installation instructions:
+------------------------+

Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg fetchmail-6.4.27-i586-2_slack15.0.txz


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Slackware Linux Security Team
http://slackware.com/gpg-key
security@slackware.com

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