DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2711

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2711
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Upstream
Published
2008-06-16T21:41:00Z
Modified
2025-10-09T04:01:15Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / fetchmail

Package

Name
fetchmail
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/fetchmail?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.3.9~rc2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / fetchmail

Package

Name
fetchmail
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/fetchmail?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.3.9~rc2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / fetchmail

Package

Name
fetchmail
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/fetchmail?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.3.9~rc2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:14 / fetchmail

Package

Name
fetchmail
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/fetchmail?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.3.9~rc2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}