CVE-2008-2711
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 16, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 16, 2008
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- ADV-2008-1860vdb-entry
- 31287third-party-advisory
- 20080729 rPSA-2008-0235-1 fetchmail fetchmailconfmailing-list
- 1020298vdb-entry
- 33937third-party-advisory
- 20080617 fetchmail security announcement fetchmail-SA-2008-01 (CVE-2008-2711)mailing-list
- 31262third-party-advisory
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0235
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
- APPLE-SA-2009-02-12vendor-advisory
- 30895third-party-advisory
- FEDORA-2008-5800vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2008-5789vendor-advisory
- SSA:2008-210-01vendor-advisory
- http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt
- ADV-2009-0422vdb-entry
- 29705vdb-entry
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2623
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354291
- MDVSA-2008:117vendor-advisory
- fetchmail-logmessage-dos(43121)vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20080613 CVE Id Request: fetchmail <= 6.3.8 DoS when logging long headers in -v -v modemailing-list
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10950vdb-entrysignature
- 30742third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20210809 fetchmail 6.4.21 released/regression fix for 6.4.20's security fix, and UPDATE: fetchmail <= 6.4.19 security announcement 2021-01 (CVE-2021-36386)mailing-list
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