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CVE-2006-5974

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
31/12/2006
Last modified:
17/10/2018

Description

fetchmail 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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

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