CVE-2002-1174 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2002-1174

Buffer overflows in Fetchmail 6.0.0 and earlier allow remote attackers...

Vulnerability Description

Buffer overflows in Fetchmail 6.0.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) long headers that are not properly processed by the readheaders function, or (2) via long Received: headers, which are not properly parsed by the parse_received function.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

fetchmail
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.6, 4.5.7, 4.5.8, 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3, 4.6.4, 4.6.5, 4.6.6, 4.6.7, 4.6.8, 4.6.9, 4.7.0, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.7.3, 4.7.4, 4.7.5, 4.7.6, 4.7.7, 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7, 5.0.8, 5.1.0, 5.1.4, 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.7, 5.2.8, 5.3.0, 5.3.1, 5.3.3, 5.3.8, 5.4.0, 5.4.3, 5.4.4, 5.4.5, 5.5.0, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.5, 5.5.6, 5.6.0, 5.7.0, 5.7.2, 5.7.4, 5.8, 5.8.1, 5.8.2, 5.8.3, 5.8.4, 5.8.5, 5.8.6, 5.8.11, 5.8.13, 5.8.14, 5.8.17, 5.9.0, 5.9.4, 5.9.5, 5.9.8, 5.9.10, 5.9.11, 5.9.13

Timeline

Official Publish: October 1st, 2002
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.