Vulnerability CVE-2006-5974
Published: 2006-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Fetchmail -> Fetchmail 

 References:
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017479
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456114/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088
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