CVEvulnerability
CVE-2001-0819
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2001-12-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
A buffer overflow in Linux fetchmail before 5.8.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large 'To:' field in an email header.
Affected configurations
• fetchmail fetchmail (<= 5.8.5)
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.2
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.6
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.7
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.8
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.2
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.6
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.7
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.8
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.9
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.2
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.6
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.7
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.2
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.6
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.7
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.8
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.1.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.1.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.7
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.8
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.3.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.3.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.3.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.3.8
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.4.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.4.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.4.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.4.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.5.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.5.2
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.5.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.5.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.5.6
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.6.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.7.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.7.2
… and 6 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:43.fetchmail.asc ftp.FreeBSD.org
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000403 distro.conectiva.com.br
- http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-025-01 download.immunix.org
- http://www.caldera.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-022.1.txt www.caldera.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-060 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-063.php3?dis=7.1 www.linux-mandrake.com
- http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/other_advisory-1451.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_026_fetchmail_txt.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-103.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2877 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6704 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:43.fetchmail.asc ftp.FreeBSD.org
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000403 distro.conectiva.com.br
- http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-025-01 download.immunix.org
- http://www.caldera.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-022.1.txt www.caldera.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-060 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-063.php3?dis=7.1 www.linux-mandrake.com
- http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/other_advisory-1451.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_026_fetchmail_txt.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-103.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2877 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6704 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com