CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-2711

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2008-06-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-06-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

fetchmail 6.3.8 and earlier, when running in -v -v (aka verbose) mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and persistent mail failure) via a malformed mail message with long headers, which triggers an erroneous dereference when using vsnprintf to format log messages.

Affected configurations

• fetchmail fetchmail (<= 6.3.8) • 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 41 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References