>> Fetchmail Messages Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : Fetchmail Messages Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2996 CVE ID : CVE-2005-4348
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-12-19
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Fetchmail, which may be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to a null pointer dereference error when processing messages without headers, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application (configured for multidrop mode) via a malicious upstream mail server.
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