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CVE-2008-2711

Date: June 16, 2008

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.

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (27)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31287

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31262

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43121

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:117

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30895

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29705

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494865/100/0/threaded

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01091.html

Url: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354291

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01095.html

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10950

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2711

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/13/1

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1860/references

Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.495740

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/09/1

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020298

Url: http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0235

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2623

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30742

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493391/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33937

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-2711

Severity Score

3.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2008-2711

Date: June 16, 2008

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