CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2711
4.3 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30742 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30895 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31262 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31287 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 Vendor Advisory
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.495740 slackware.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 support.apple.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0235 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt www.fetchmail.info
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:117 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/13/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/09/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493391/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494865/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29705 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020298 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1860/references www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354291 bugzilla.novell.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43121 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2623 issues.rpath.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10950 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01091.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01095.html www.redhat.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30742 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30895 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31262 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31287 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 Vendor Advisory
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.495740 slackware.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 support.apple.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0235 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt www.fetchmail.info
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:117 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/13/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/09/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493391/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494865/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29705 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020298 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1860/references www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354291 bugzilla.novell.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43121 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2623 issues.rpath.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10950 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01091.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01095.html www.redhat.com