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High
CVE-2006-5974
fetchmail 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, when refusing a message...
Vulnerability 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 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
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017479
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23838
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24151
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456114/100/0/threaded
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23631
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23804
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23923
- http://osvdb.org/31836
- http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902
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Affected Vendor
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fetchmail
Vulnerable Versions:
6.3.5, 6.3.6
Timeline
Official Publish:
January 9th, 2007
Last Modified:
August 7th, 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.