Vulnerability in Fetchmail

CVE-2012-3482

Fetchmail 5.0.8 through 6.3.21, when using NTLM authentication in debug mode, allows remote NTLM servers to (1) cause a denial of service (crash and delayed delivery of inbound mail) via a crafted NTLM response that triggers an out-of-bounds read in the base64 decoder, or (2) obtain sensitive information from memory via an NTLM Type 2 message with a crafted Target Name structure, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

EPSS: 0.019 (77.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Fetchmail — versions 5.0.8, 5.1.0, 5.1.4
  • N/a — versions n/a

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