GSD-2006-5974

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19
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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.
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            "baseScore": 7.8,
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      "lastModifiedDate": "2018-10-17T21:46Z",
      "publishedDate": "2006-12-31T05:00Z"
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