Vulnerability in Fetchmail
CVE-2011-1947
fetchmail 5.9.9 through 6.3.19 does not properly limit the wait time after issuing a (1) STARTTLS or (2) STLS request, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application hang) by acknowledging the request but not sending additional packets.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.026 (84.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 84.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Fetchmail — versions 5.9.9, 5.9.10, 5.9.11
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/17 (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/48043 (vdb-entry)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061672.html (vendor-advisory)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/12 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/30/1 (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/518251/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061634.html (vendor-advisory)
- gitorious.org/fetchmail/fetchmail/blobs/legacy_63/fetchmail-SA-2011-01.txt
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)