Getmail Local Symbolic Link Vulnerability Solution:
The vendor has released an upgrade dealing with this issue.
Gentoo Linux has released advisory GLSA 200409-32 addressing this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for further information. Users of affected packages are urged to execute the following with superuser privileges:
emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=net-mail/getmail-4.2.0"
emerge ">=net-mail/getmail-4.2.0"
Debian has released an advisory (DSA 553-1) and fixes to address this issue. See the referenced advisory for fix information.
Slackware Linux has released advisory SSA:2004-278-01 along with fixes to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.
Slackware Linux -current
Slackware Linux 10.0
getmail getmail 2.3.7
getmail getmail 4.0
getmail getmail 4.0 .0b10
getmail getmail 4.0.1
getmail getmail 4.0.10
getmail getmail 4.0.11
getmail getmail 4.0.12
getmail getmail 4.0.13
getmail getmail 4.0.2
getmail getmail 4.0.3
getmail getmail 4.0.4
getmail getmail 4.0.5
getmail getmail 4.0.6
getmail getmail 4.0.7
getmail getmail 4.0.8
getmail getmail 4.0.9
getmail getmail 4.1
getmail getmail 4.1.1
getmail getmail 4.1.2
getmail getmail 4.1.3
getmail getmail 4.1.4
getmail getmail 4.1.5
Slackware Linux 9.1
