CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-2335
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-07-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in the POP3 client in Fetchmail before 6.2.5.2 allows remote POP3 servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long UIDL responses. NOTE: a typo in an advisory accidentally used the wrong CVE identifier for the Fetchmail issue. This is the correct identifier.
Affected configurations
• fetchmail fetchmail (<= 6.2.5.1)
• 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 29 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=6617 Patch
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16176 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21253 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-774 www.debian.org
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/18174 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00088.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00089.html Patch
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00104.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-640.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435197/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441856/100/200/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14349 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1171 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101 www.vupen.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1038 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1124 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8833 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=6617 Patch
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16176 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21253 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-774 www.debian.org
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/18174 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00088.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00089.html Patch
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00104.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-640.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435197/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441856/100/200/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14349 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1171 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101 www.vupen.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1038 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1124 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8833 oval.cisecurity.org