CVE-2006-5974

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5974
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-12-31 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-17 21:46:00 UTC
Descriptionfetchmail 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, when refusing a message delivered via the mda option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL pointer dereference when calling the (1) ferror or (2) fflush functions.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.5 All All All
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.6 rc1 All All
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.6 rc2 All All
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.6 rc3 All All
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.5 All All All
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.6 rc1 All All
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.6 rc2 All All
Application Fetchmail Fetchmail 6.3.6 rc3 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: fetchmail-6.3.6-1.fc5 | FedoraNEWS.ORG FEDORA fedoranews.org
31836 OSVDB osvdb.org
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
2007-0007 TRUSTIX www.trustix.org
Fetchmail Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Patch
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories SLACKWARE slackware.com
Fetchmail MDA Option Message Refusal Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK securitytracker.com
Fedora update for fetchmail - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Slackware update for fetchmail - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Trustix Update for Various Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Fetchmail: Denial of Service and password disclosure GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Fetchmail TLS Configuration Security Issue and "MDA" Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Gentoo update for fetchmail - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
OpenPKG Corporation: Security: Security Advisories OPENPKG www.openpkg.com
Fetchmail - Kostenloser Open Source Mail Daemon CONFIRM fetchmail.berlios.de
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-01-11Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of fetchmail distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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