CVE-2005-4348

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-4348
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-12-21 00:03:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-19 15:40:00 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

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail All All All All
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-233-1: fetchmail vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
21906 OSVDB www.osvdb.org Broken Link
Fetchmail - Kostenloser Open Source Mail Daemon CONFIRM fetchmail.berlios.de Broken Link
SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3 Multiple Updates - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Fetchmail Can Be Crashed By Remote Users By Sending a Headerless Message SECTRACK securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Fedora update for fetchmail SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
20070201-01-P SGI patches.sgi.com Broken Link
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for fetchmail SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Fetchmail Headerless Message Denial of Service Vulnerability SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Apple Mac OS X Multiple Security Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Fetchmail Missing Email Header Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Secunia - Advisories - Mandriva update for fetchmail SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat update for fetchmail - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
#343836 - (CVE-2005-4348) Security: DoS attack possible - crashes on empty message - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories SLACKWARE slackware.com Third Party Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva MANDRIVA wwwnew.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com Broken Link
Trustix update for multiple packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Slackware update for fetchmail - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
2006-0002 TRUSTIX www.trustix.org Broken Link
Debian update for fetchmail - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Page not found DEBIAN www.debian.org 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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