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CVE-2005-4348 Detail

Description

fetchmail before 6.3.1 and before 6.2.5.5, when configured for multidrop mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by sending messages without headers from upstream mail servers.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/31/2007)

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. An update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to correct this issue: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc Broken Link 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343836 Issue Tracking  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt Broken Link 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015383 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.443499 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-939 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420098/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435197/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15987 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0002/ Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2996 Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101 Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:236 Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23713 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9659 Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/233-1/

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-4348
NVD Published Date:
12/20/2005
NVD Last Modified:
10/19/2018
Source:
MITRE