CVE-2006-0321

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-0321
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-01-24 00:03:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-19 15:44:00 UTC
Descriptionfetchmail 6.3.0 and other versions before 6.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted e-mail messages that cause a free of an invalid pointer when fetchmail bounces the message to the originator or local postmaster.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.0 All All All
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.1 All All All
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.0 All All All
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fetchmail Bounced Message Denial of Service Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Fetchmail - Kostenloser Open Source Mail Daemon CONFIRM fetchmail.berlios.de Patch, Vendor Advisory
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Fetchmail Invalid free() on Message Bounce Lets Remote Users Deny Service SECTRACK securitytracker.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
#348747 - fetchmail: segfault when submitting dsn to local postmaster - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org
APPLE-SA-2006-08-01 Security Update 2006-004 APPLE lists.apple.com
Apple Mac OS X Multiple Security Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
500 Internal Server Error CONFIRM developer.berlios.de
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories SLACKWARE slackware.com
Fetchmail Bounced Message Denial Of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
22691 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-214A -- Apple Mac Products Affected by Multiple Vulnerabilities CERT www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
Slackware update for fetchmail - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor 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 Hat2006-08-30Mark J CoxThis issue did not affect the versions of Fetchmail as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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