PT-2006-6635 · Fetchmail · Fetchmail

Isaac Wilcox · Published 2006-12-31 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2006-5974

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions fetchmail versions 6.3.5 through 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4

Description The issue 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.

Recommendations For fetchmail versions 6.3.5 through 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, update to version 6.3.6-rc4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-5974

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10753-1

Affected Products

Fetchmail

References · 29

• http://secunia.com/advisories/24151 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23923 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23631 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23838 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5974 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/21902 · Patch
• http://trustix.org/errata/2007/0007 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23804 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5974 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10753-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-5974 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-5974 · Vendor Advisory