X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=559d4d228519d39f42d7f7c8ebe4c18465bf6b64;hb=53293ee30678d3db753e51820cc554c0b2b1bd97;hp=828fcb531e9184f09b674a350ebd6ae60a4e0028;hpb=d18de31f1c80f553996a85c325456f8f4f0cf927;p=~andy%2Ffetchmail diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 828fcb53..559d4d22 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -56,22 +56,194 @@ removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +fetchmail-6.3.25 (not yet released): + +# BUG FIXES +* Fix a memory leak in out-of-memory error condition while handling plugins. + Report and patch by John Beck (found with Parfait static code analyzer). +* Fix a NULL pointer dereference in out-of-memory error condition while handling + plugins. + Report and patch by John Beck (found with Parfait static code analyzer). + +# CHANGES +* Improved reporting when SSL/TLS X.509 certificate validation has failed, + working around a not-so-recent swapping of two OpenSSL error codes, and + a practical impossibility to distinguish broken certification chains from + missing trust anchors (root certificates). +* OpenSSL decoded errors are now reported through report(), rather than dumped + to stderr, so that they should show up in logfiles and/or syslog. + +# WORKAROUNDS +* Older systems that provide the older RFC-2553 implementation of getaddrinfo, + rather than the current RFC-3493, and systems that do not provide this + getaddrinfo() interface at all and thus use the replacement functions from + libesmtp/getaddrinfo.?, might return EAI_NODATA when a host is registered in + DNS as MX or similar, but without A or AAAA records. Handle this situation + when checking for multidrop aliases and treat EAI_NODATA the same as + EAI_NONAME, i. e. name cannot be resolved. + + The proper fix, however, is to upgrade the operating system. + + +fetchmail-6.3.24 (released 2012-12-23, 26108 LoC): + +# NOTE THAT THE RELEASE OF FUTURE FETCHMAIL 6.3.X VERSIONS IS UNCLEAR. +Should a 7.0 release be made earlier, chances are that the 6.3.X branch +is abandoned and its changes be folded into the 7.0 release, with changes +after 6.3.24 not available on their own in a newer 6.3.X release. + +# NOTE THAT FETCHMAIL IS NO LONGER PUBLISHED THROUGH IBIBLIO. + They have stopped accepting submissions and consider themselves an archive. + +# CRITICAL AND REGRESSION FIXES +* Plug a memory leak in OpenSSL's certificate verification callback. + This would affect fetchmail configurations running with SSL in daemon mode + more than one-shot runs. + Reported by Erik Thiele, and pinned by Dominik Heeg, + fixes Debian Bug #688015. + This bug was introduced into fetchmail 6.3.0 (committed 2005-10-29) + when support for subjectAltName was added through a patch by Roland + Stigge, submitted as Debian Bug#201113. + +* The --logfile option now works again outside daemon mode, reported by Heinz + Diehl. The documentation that I had been reading was inconsistent with the + code, and only parts of the manual page claimed that --logfile was only + effective in daemon mode. + +# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS + (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the + current release information) +* Fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well + (See sourceforge.net bug #780933) +* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output. +* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in + 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit + fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code, + so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties. +* Fetchmail does not track pending deletes across crashes. +* The command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance, + fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running. +* Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if + no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured. + (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.) +* Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error + messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5 + server to test against. Use GSSAPI. + + +fetchmail-6.3.23 (released 2012-12-10, 26106 LoC): + +# REGRESSION FIXES +* Fix compilation with OpenSSL implementations before 0.9.8m that lack + SSL_CTX_clear_options. Patch by Earl Chew. + Note that the use of older OpenSSL versions with fetchmail is unsupported and + *not* recommended. + +# BUG FIXES +* Fix combination of --plugin and -f -. Patch by Alexander Zangerl, + to fix Debian Bug#671294. +* Clean up logfile vs. syslog handling, and in case logfile overrides + syslog, send a message to the latter stating where logging goes. + +# CHANGES +* The build process can now be made a bit more silent and concise through + ./configure --enable-silent-rules, or by adding "V=0" to the make command. + +# WORKAROUNDS +* Make Maillennium POP3 workarounds less specific, to encompass + Maillennium POP3/UNIBOX (Maillennium V05.00c++). Reported by Eddie + via fetchmail-users mailing list, 2012-10-13. + +# TRANSLATION UPDATES +[cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar +[da] Danish, by Joe Hansen +[de] German +[fr] French, Frédéric Marchal +[ja] Japanese, Takeshi Hamasaki +[pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz +[sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg +[vi] Vietnamese, Trần Ngọc Quân + + +fetchmail-6.3.22 (released 2012-08-29, 26077 LoC): + +# SECURITY FIXES +* for CVE-2012-3482: + NTLM: fetchmail mistook an error message that the server sent in response to + an NTLM request for protocol exchange, tried to decode it, and crashed while + reading from a bad memory location. + Also, with a carefully crafted NTLM challenge packet sent from the server, it + would be possible that fetchmail conveyed confidential data not meant for the + server through the NTLM response packet. + Fix: Detect base64 decoding errors, validate the NTLM challenge, and abort + NTLM authentication in case of error. + See fetchmail-SA-2012-02.txt for further details. + Reported by J. Porter Clark. + +* for CVE-2011-3389: + SSL/TLS (wrapped and STARTTLS): fetchmail used to disable a countermeasure + against a certain kind of attack against cipher block chaining initialization + vectors (SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS). + Whether this creates an exploitable situation, depends on the server and the + negotiated ciphers. + As a precaution, fetchmail 6.3.22 enables the countermeasure, by clearing + SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS. + + NOTE that this can cause connections to certain non-conforming servers to + fail, in which case you can set the environment variable + FETCHMAIL_DISABLE_CBC_IV_COUNTERMEASURE to any non-empty value when starting + fetchmail to re-instate the compatibility option at the expense of security. + + Reported by Apple Product Security. + + For technical details, refer to . + See fetchmail-SA-2012-01.txt for further details. + # BUG FIX * The Server certificate: message in verbose mode now appears on stdout like the remainder of the output. Reported by Henry Jensen, to fix Debian Bug #639807. -# CHANGE +* The GSSAPI-related autoconf code now matches gssapi.c better, and uses + a different check to look for GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE. + This fixes the GSSAPI-enabled build on NetBSD 6 Beta. + +# CHANGES * On systems where SSLv2_client_method isn't defined in OpenSSL (such as newer Debian, and Ubuntu starting with 11.10 oneiric ocelot), don't - reference it (to fix the build) and print a run-time error that the OS - does not support SSLv2. Fixes Debian Bug #622054, but note that that bug - report has a more thorough patch that does away with SSLv2 altogether. + reference it (to fix the build) and if configured, print a run-time error + that the OS does not support SSLv2. Fixes Debian Bug #622054, + but note that that bug report has a more thorough patch that does away with + SSLv2 altogether. + +* The security and errata notices fetchmail-{EN,SA}-20??-??.txt are now + under the more relaxed CC BY-ND 3.0 license (the noncommercial clause + was dropped). The Creative Commons address was updated. + +* The Python-related Makefile.am parts were simplified to avoid an automake + 1.11.X bug around noinst_PYTHON, Automake Bug #10995. + +* Configuring fetchmail without SSL now triggers a configure warning, + and asks the user to consider running configure --with-ssl. # WORKAROUND * Some servers, notably Zimbra, return A1234 987 FETCH () in response to a header request, in the face of message corruption. fetchmail now treats these as temporary errors. Report and Patch by Mikulas Patocka, Red Hat. +* Some servers, notably Microsoft Exchange, return "A0009 OK FETCH completed." + without any header in response to a header request for meeting reminder + messages (with a "meeting.ics" attachment). fetchmail now treats these as + transient errors. Report by John Connett, Patch by Sunil Shetye. + +# TRANSLATION UPDATES +* [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar +* [de] German +* [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal +* [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki +* [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz +* [sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg --- NEW TRANSLATION - Thank you! +* [vi] Vietnamese, by Trần Ngọc Quân + fetchmail-6.3.21 (released 2011-08-21, 26011 LoC): @@ -131,26 +303,6 @@ fetchmail-6.3.20 (released 2011-06-06, 26005 LoC): [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz) [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka) -# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS - (this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the - current release information - however, it was stuck with 6.3.8 for a while) -* fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well - (See sourceforge.net bug #780933) -* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output. -* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in - 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit - fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code, - so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties. -* fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes. -* the command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance, - fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running. -* Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if - no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured. - (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.) -* Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error - messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5 - server to test against. Use GSSAPI. - fetchmail-6.3.19 (released 2010-12-10, 25945 LoC):