CVE-2008-2711

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)…

published June 16, 2008

CVSS
—
EPSS
3%
Percentile
87.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03003 · 87.3th percentile
Published
2008-06-16T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUN 21:00Z
    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)…
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