CVE-2005-4348

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-4348
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-12-21 00:03:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptionfetchmail before 6.3.1 and before 6.2.5.5, when configured for multidrop mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by sending messages without headers from upstream mail servers.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
#343836 - (CVE-2005-4348) Security: DoS attack possible - crashes on empty message - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
USN-233-1: fetchmail vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 usn.ubuntu.com
Debian update for fetchmail - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Apple Mac OS X Multiple Security Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Secunia - Advisories - Mandriva update for fetchmail af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Fedora update for fetchmail af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com Broken Link
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
www.osvdb.org/21906 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org Broken Link
Fetchmail - Kostenloser Open Source Mail Daemon af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 fetchmail.berlios.de Broken Link
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
Slackware update for fetchmail - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0002 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.org Broken Link
Red Hat update for fetchmail - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Page not found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3 Multiple Updates - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Fetchmail Missing Email Header Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Fetchmail Can Be Crashed By Remote Users By Sending a Headerless Message af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Secunia - Advisories - Fetchmail Headerless Message Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 patches.sgi.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for fetchmail af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wwwnew.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 slackware.com Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Third Party Advisory
Trustix update for multiple packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-01-31Mark J CoxThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. An update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to correct this issue: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.
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