CVE-2008-2711 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2711
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Description: fetchmail 6.3.8 and earlier, when running in -v -v (aka verbose) mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and persistent mail failure) via a malformed mail message with long headers, which triggers an erroneous dereference when using vsnprintf to format log messages.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: ST 1020298 SLACKWARE http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.495740 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA30742 Secunia Advisory: SA31262 Secunia Advisory: SA31287 Secunia Advisory: SA30895 MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/13/1 MISC MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:117 FEDORA CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0235 http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/494865/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/493391/100/0/threaded BID 29705

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