CVE-2002-1174

critical

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5827

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5825

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/other_advisory-2402.html

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-063.php

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10203.php

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-171

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-215.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103340148625187&w=2

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000531

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-10-11

Updated: 2016-10-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical