CVE-2005-2335

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...

CVE-2005-2335

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...

CVE-2005-2335: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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...

USN-153-1: fetchmail vulnerability

Ross Boylan discovered a remote buffer overflow in fetchmail. By sending invalid responses with very long UIDs, a faulty or malicious POP server could crash fetchmail or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking fetchmail. fetchmail is commonly run as root to fetch mail for...

fetchmail security announcement fetchmail-SA-2005-01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 fetchmail-SA-2005-01: security announcement Topic: remote code injection vulnerability in fetchmail Author: Matthias Andree Version: 1.02 Announced: 2005-07-21 Type: buffer overrun/stack corruption/code injection Impact: account or system compromise...

fetchmail, fetchmailconf security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:640-01 Updated fetchmail packages that fix a security flaw are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. A buffer...

fetchmail security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:640 Updated fetchmail packages that fix a security flaw are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. A buffer...

security flaw

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: fetchmail security update

Updated fetchmail packages that fix a security flaw are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. A buffer overflow was discovered in fetchmail's POP3 client. A...

[ GLSA 200507-21 ] fetchmail: Buffer Overflow

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fetchmail: Buffer Overflow

Background fetchmail is a utility that retrieves and forwards mail from remote systems using IMAP, POP, and other protocols. Description fetchmail does not properly validate UIDs coming from a POP3 mail server. The UID is placed in a fixed length buffer on the stack, which can be overflown. Impac...

RHEL 4 : fetchmail (RHSA-2005:640)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2005:640 advisory. Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. A buffer overflow was discovered in fetchmail's POP3 client. A malicious server could cau...

fetchmail

New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. Connecting to a malicious or compromised POP3 server may overflow fetchmail's stack causing a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. For more information about this issue, see:...

Fedora Core 3 : fetchmail-6.2.5-7.fc3.1 (2005-614)

A buffer overflow was discovered in fetchmail's POP3 client. A malicious server could cause fetchmail to execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned the name CVE-2005-2355 to this issue. All fetchmail users should upgrade to the updated package, which fix...

Fedora Core 4 : fetchmail-6.2.5-7.fc4.1 (2005-613)

A buffer overflow was discovered in fetchmail's POP3 client. A malicious server could cause fetchmail to execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned the name CVE-2005-2355 to this issue. All fetchmail users should upgrade to the updated package, which fix...

fetchmail -- denial of service/crash from malicious POP3 server

In fetchmail 6.2.5.1, the remote code injection via POP3 UIDL was fixed, but a denial of service attack was introduced: Two possible NULL-pointer dereferences allow a malicious POP3 server to crash fetchmail by respondig with UID lines containing only the article number but no UID in violation of...

fetchmail -- remote root/code injection from malicious POP3 server

fetchmail's POP3/UIDL code does not truncate received UIDs properly. A malicious or compromised POP3 server can thus corrupt fetchmail's stack and inject code when fetchmail is using UIDL, either through configuration, or as a result of certain server capabilities. Note that fetchmail is run as...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : fetchmail security update (SSA:2003-300-02)

Fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility. Upgraded fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix a vulnerability where a specially crafted email could crash fetchmail, preventing the user from downloading or forwarding their email. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian DSA-071-1 : fetchmail - memory corruption

Salvatore Sanfilippo found two remotely exploitable problems infetchmail while doing a security audit. In both the IMAP code and the POP3 code, the input isn't verified even though it's used to store a number in an array. Since no bounds checking is done this can be used by an attacker to write...

Debian DSA-216-1 : fetchmail - buffer overflow

Stefan Esser of e-matters discovered a buffer overflow in fetchmail, an SSL enabled POP3, APOP and IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder. When fetchmail retrieves a mail all headers that contain addresses are searched for local addresses. If a hostname is missing, fetchmail appends it but doesn't reserve...