CVE-2008-2711
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2711
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2008-2711.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2008-2711
- Downstream
- Published
- 2008-06-16T21:41:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-09-21T16:00:19Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/30742
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30895
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31262
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31287
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:117
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1860/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354291
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.495740
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0235
- http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/13/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/09/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493391/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494865/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29705
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020298
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43121
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2623
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10950
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01091.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01095.html