Marked for autoremoval on 19 November: #1039198high
Version 6.6.0-1 of fetchmail is marked for autoremoval from testing on Wed 19 Nov 2025. It is affected by #1039198. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.
A new upstream version is available: 7.0.0-alpha11high
A new upstream version 7.0.0-alpha11 is available, you should consider packaging it.
1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:
CVE-2025-61962:
(needs triaging)
In fetchmail before 6.5.6, the SMTP client can crash when authenticating upon receiving a 334 status code in a malformed context.
Among the 3 debian patches
available in version 6.6.0-1 of the package,
we noticed the following issues:
3 patches
where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded
upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the
metadata to document its real status.
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