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CVE-2008-2711

Published: Jun 16, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

fetchmail 6.3.8 and earlier, when running in -v -v (aka verbose) mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and persistent mail failure) via a malformed mail message with long headers, which triggers an erroneous dereference when using vsnprintf to format log messages.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

ADV-2008-1860
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
31287
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
1020298
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
33937
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
31262
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
APPLE-SA-2009-02-12
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_APPLE
30895
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
FEDORA-2008-5800
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
FEDORA-2008-5789
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
SSA:2008-210-01
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SLACKWARE
ADV-2009-0422
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
29705
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
MDVSA-2008:117
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MANDRIVA
fetchmail-logmessage-dos(43121)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10950
vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_OVAL
30742
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA

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