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CVE-2006-5974

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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.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087

http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456114/100/0/threaded

http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017479

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/24151

http://secunia.com/advisories/23923

http://secunia.com/advisories/23838

http://secunia.com/advisories/23804

http://secunia.com/advisories/23631

http://osvdb.org/31836

http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-12-31

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.09176

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