>> Fetchmail Header Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : Fetchmail Header Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1860 CVE ID : CVE-2008-2711 CWE ID : CWE-19
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-06-18
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Fetchmail, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error when processing messages overly large headers (exceeding 2048 bytes) while running in -v -v verbose level, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application, creating a denial of service condition.
