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CVE-2008-2711

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
16/06/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

fetchmail 6.3.8 and earlier, when running in -v -v (aka verbose) mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and persistent mail failure) via a malformed mail message with long headers, which triggers an erroneous dereference when using vsnprintf to format log messages.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.3.8 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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