Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Fetchmail (aka fetchmail-ssl) before 5.8.17 allows a remote malicious (1) IMAP server or (2) POP/POP3 server to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly gain privileges via a negative index number as part of a response to a LIST request.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability in fetchmail 5.5.0-2 and earlier in the AUTHENTICATE GSSAPI command.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

fetchmail before 6.3.1 and before 6.2.5.5, when configured for multidrop mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by sending messages without headers from upstream mail servers.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

fetchmail before 6.3.6-rc4 does not properly enforce TLS and may transmit cleartext passwords over unsecured links if certain circumstances occur, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Input Validation, Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

A buffer overflow in Linux fetchmail before 5.8.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large 'To:' field in an email header.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Heap-based buffer overflow in Fetchmail 6.1.3 and earlier does not account for the "@" character when determining buffer lengths for local addresses, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a header with a large number of local addresses.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Buffer overflows in Fetchmail 6.0.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) long headers that are not properly processed by the readheaders function, or (2) via long Received: headers, which are not properly parsed by the parsereceived function.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The sdump function in sdump.c in fetchmail 6.3.11, 6.3.12, and 6.3.13, when running in verbose mode on platforms for which char is signed, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an SSL X.509 certificate containing non-printable characters with the high bit set, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow during escaping.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Fetchmail before 6.4.22 fails to enforce STARTTLS session encryption in some circumstances, such as a certain situation with IMAP and PREAUTH.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Fetchmail 5.0.8 through 6.3.21, when using NTLM authentication in debug mode, allows remote NTLM servers to (1) cause a denial of service (crash and delayed delivery of inbound mail) via a crafted NTLM response that triggers an out-of-bounds read in the base64 decoder, or (2) obtain sensitive information from memory via an NTLM Type 2 message with a crafted Target Name structure, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Buffer overflow in the POP3 client in Fetchmail before 6.2.5.2 allows remote POP3 servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long UIDL responses. NOTE: a typo in an advisory accidentally used the wrong CVE identifier for the Fetchmail issue. This is the correct identifier.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Fetchmail 6.2.4 and earlier does not properly allocate memory for long lines, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a certain email.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

fetchmail email client before 5.9.10 does not properly limit the maximum number of messages available, which allows a remote IMAP server to overwrite memory via a message count that exceeds the boundaries of an array.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

fetchmail 6.3.0 and other versions before 6.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted e-mail messages that cause a free of an invalid pointer when fetchmail bounces the message to the originator or local postmaster.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The getmxrecord function in Fetchmail 6.0.0 and earlier does not properly check the boundary of a particular malformed DNS packet from a malicious DNS server, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) when Fetchmail attempts to read data beyond the expected boundary.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

sink.c in fetchmail before 6.3.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) by refusing certain warning messages that are sent over SMTP.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

fetchmail 4.6.3 through 6.3.16, when debug mode is enabled, does not properly handle invalid characters in a multi-character locale, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted (1) message header or (2) POP3 UIDL list.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

fetchmailconf in fetchmail before 5.7.4 allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack on temporary files.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.1
Infoleak
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

fetchmailconf before 1.49 in fetchmail 6.2.0, 6.2.5 and 6.2.5.2 creates configuration files with insecure world-readable permissions, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information such as passwords.

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REJECT DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: the reported issue is not a vulnerability or exposure. Notes: This candidate was assigned to a "head-reading" bug in a component of fetchmail 6.2.4 and earlier, which was claimed to allow a denial of service. However, the bug is in a broken component of fetchmail that is not "reachable" by any execution path, so it cannot be triggered by any sort of attack and is not exploitable.

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