CVE-2008-2711

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.1

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

3.347

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
(RHSA-2009:1427) Moderate: fetchmail security update fetchmail-6.3.6-1.1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2009:1427) Moderate: fetchmail security update fetchmail-6.3.6-1.1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234