CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5974
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• fetchmail fetchmail 6.3.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 6.3.6
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429 fedoranews.org
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt fetchmail.berlios.de
- http://osvdb.org/31836 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23631 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23804 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23838 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23923 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24151 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017479 securitytracker.com
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995 slackware.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html www.openpkg.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456114/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902 Patch
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007 www.trustix.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088 www.vupen.com
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429 fedoranews.org
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt fetchmail.berlios.de
- http://osvdb.org/31836 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23631 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23804 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23838 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23923 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24151 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017479 securitytracker.com
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995 slackware.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html www.openpkg.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456114/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902 Patch
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007 www.trustix.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088 www.vupen.com