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CVE-2002-1174

Buffer overflows in Fetchmail 6.0.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) long headers that…

Impact

Buffer overflows in Fetchmail 6.0.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) long headers that are not properly processed by the readheaders function, or (2) via long Received: headers, which are not properly parsed by the parse_received function.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
FetchmailFetchmail
through 6.0.0
Versions 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4, 4.5.5

Weakness classification

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