CVE-2006-5974 (GCVE-0-2006-5974)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-01-09 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:12
VLAI
Summary
fetchmail 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, when refusing a message delivered via the mda option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL pointer dereference when calling the (1) ferror or (2) fflush functions.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackw… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
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http://osvdb.org/31836 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPK… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENPKG
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIX
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2007-01-04 00:00
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