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CVE-2006-5974

fetchmail 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, when refusing a message delivered via the mda option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL pointer dereference when calling the (1) ferror or (2) fflush functions.

Published

2006-12-31T05:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-20

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	fetchmail	fetchmail	6.3.5	Yes
Application	fetchmail	fetchmail	6.3.6	Yes
Application	fetchmail	fetchmail	6.3.6	Yes
Application	fetchmail	fetchmail	6.3.6	Yes

References

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429 ([email protected])
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt ([email protected])
http://osvdb.org/31836 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/23631 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/23804 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/23838 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/23923 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/24151 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017479 ([email protected])
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995 ([email protected])
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html ([email protected])
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456114/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902 Patch ([email protected])
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088 ([email protected])
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://osvdb.org/31836 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/23631 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/23804 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/23838 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/23923 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/24151 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017479 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456114/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)