[vendor-sec] New Fetchmail issue

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 00:05 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 December 2005 16:40, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 12:22 -0800, Josh Bressers wrote:
> >> http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt
> >>
> >> Just a DoS, nothing to cause a panic before the holiday :)
> >
> >>From investigation and chatting w/ RH, seems only FC2 is affected by
> >this (and FC3 but RH is fixing FC3).  They recommend we update FC2's
> >6.2.5-2 to 6.2.5.5.  The update is supposed to be security and
> > serious bugfixes which fits into Legacy policy.
> >
> >Can someone file a bug?  This isn't a private issue, so public bug is
> >fine.
> 
> Thats fine to advise us Jesse, but the server is down again:
> -----------
> [root at coyote /]# yum check-update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/2/os/i386/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/2/os/i386/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error >
> ------------


no it's not.

I just checked it and I checked its monitoring stats - it's not been
down at all.

You sure your network hasn't been having issues?

-sv