National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5974
Original release date:12/31/2006
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
fetchmail 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, when refusing a message delivered via the mda option, 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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (01/11/2007)
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Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of fetchmail distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: BID
Name: 21902
Type: Patch Information
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2007-0007
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070105 fetchmail security announcement 2006-03 (CVE-2006-5974)
External Source: OPENPKG
Name: OpenPKG-SA-2007.004
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2007:004
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0088
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0087
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2007-024-01
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017479
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200701-13
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24151
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23923
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23838
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23804
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23631
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 31836
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2007-041