Improper input validation in Fetchmail

CVE-2008-2711

fetchmail 6.3.8 and earlier, when running in -v -v (aka verbose) mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and persistent mail failure) via a malformed mail message with long headers, which triggers an erroneous dereference when using vsnprintf to format log messages.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.030 (86.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Fetchmail — versions 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References