Description
fetchmail 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, when refusing a message delivered via the mda option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL pointer dereference when calling the (1) ferror or (2) fflush functions.
Published: 2007-01-09
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: 13.8% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-5957 fetchmail 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, when refusing a message delivered via the mda option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL pointer dereference when calling the (1) ferror or (2) fflush functions.
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Fetchmail Fetchmail
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:12:31.425Z

Reserved: 2006-11-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5974

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5974

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