Title : Fetchmail UIDL Client-Side Buffer Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1171 CVE ID : CVE-2005-2335 CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-07-22
Technical Description
A vulnerability was identified in Fetchmail, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a stack overflow error when processing specially crafted UIDL responses from a POP3 server, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to connect to a malicious POP3 server.
