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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-4348

Original release date:12/21/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

fetchmail before 6.3.1 and before 6.2.5.5, when configured for multidrop mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by sending messages without headers from upstream mail servers.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:7.8 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (legend)
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

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/31/2007)
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. An update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to correct this issue: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.

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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2005-2996
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/2996
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17891
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17891
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt
External Source: XF
Name: fetchmail-null-pointer-dos(23713)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/23713
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2005:236
Hyperlink:http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:236
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-233-1
Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-233-1
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2006-0002
Hyperlink:http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0002/
External Source: BID
Name: 19289
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289
External Source: BID
Name: 15987
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15987
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060526 rPSA-2006-0084-1 fetchmail
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/435197/100/0/threaded
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20051221 fetchmail security announcement fetchmail-SA-2005-03 (CVE-2005-4348)
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/420098/100/0/threaded
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 21906
Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/21906
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3101
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3101
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-939
Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-939
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2006-045-01
Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.443499
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1015383
Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1015383
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21253
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18895
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18895
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18463
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18463
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18433
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18433
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18266
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18266
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18231
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18231
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18172
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18172
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343836
Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343836
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0018
Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2007:004
Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24284
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24284
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24007
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24007
External Source: SGI
Name: 20070201-01-P
Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:eric_raymond:fetchmail:6.3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:eric_raymond:fetchmail:6.2.5.4 and previous versions
* Denotes Vulnerable Software
* Changes related to vulnerability configurations

Technical Details

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CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4348