CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1009

10.0 HIGH Published 2001-08-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-08-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

Fetchmail (aka fetchmail-ssl) before 5.8.17 allows a remote malicious (1) IMAP server or (2) POP/POP3 server to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly gain privileges via a negative index number as part of a response to a LIST request.

Affected configurations

• fetchmail fetchmail (<= 5.8.14) • 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 11 more

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-1285 Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input weakness
  • CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index weakness

References