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Fetchmail Headerless Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA17891
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Release Date:
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2005-12-19
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Last Update:
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2005-12-21
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Popularity:
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9,973 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Fetchmail 6.x
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Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Fetchmail, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a null pointer dereferencing error when handling a message without email headers. This can be exploited to crash Fetchmail when the upstream mail server sends a message without headers.
Successful exploitation requires that Fetchmail is configured for multidrop mode and retrieves emails from a malicious upstream mail server.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions 6.2.5.4 and 6.3.0. Prior versions may also be affected.
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