National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2010-1167)

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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-1167

Original release date:05/07/2010

Last revised:08/27/2011

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

fetchmail 4.6.3 through 6.3.16, when debug mode is enabled, does not properly handle invalid characters in a multi-character locale, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted (1) message header or (2) POP3 UIDL list.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/10/2010)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-1167 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20100506 fetchmail security announcement fetchmail-SA-2010-02 (CVE-2010-1167)

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/511140/100/0/threaded

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2010-02.txt

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2010-02.txt

External Source: BID

Name: 39556

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39556

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:107

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:107

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?group_id=1824&release_id=17512

Hyperlink:http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?group_id=1824&release_id=17512

Vulnerable software and versions

Configuration 1

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.5.2

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.9:rc5

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.8

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.7

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.5

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.2

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.1

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.9:rc9

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.9:rc4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.9:rc3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.9:rc8

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.9:rc7

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.5.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.6:pre9

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.6:pre8

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.6:pre4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.5

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.2

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.1

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.1.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.0.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.9.13

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.9.11

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.9.10

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.9.8

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.9.5

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.9.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.8.14

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.8.13

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.8.11

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.8.5

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.8.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.8.3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.8.2

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.8.1

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.8

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.7.2

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.7.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.6.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.5.6

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.5.5

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.5.3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.5.2

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.5.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.4.5

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.4.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.4.3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.3.8

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.3.3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.3.1

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.3.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.2.8

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.2.7

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.2.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.2.3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.2.1

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.2.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.1.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.1.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.0.8

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.0.7

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.0.6

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.0.5

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.0.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.0.3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.0.2

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.0.1

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.0.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.7.7

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.7.6

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.7.5

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.7.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.7.3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.7.2

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.7.1

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.7.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.9

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.8

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.7

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.6

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.5

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:4.6.3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.9.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc1

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc2

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.9:rc10

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.1.3

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.8.6

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.7.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.8.17

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.2.5.1

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:5.4.0

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.9:rc2 and previous versions

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.9

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.10

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.11

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.12

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.13

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.14

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.15

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.16

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc4

* cpe:/a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc5

* Denotes Vulnerable Software

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

Input Validation (CWE-20)

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