CVE-2006-5974

fetchmail 6.3.5-6.3.6 - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in MDA Message Refusal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (18)

Core 18
Core References
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017479
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/23838
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/24151
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456114/100/0/threaded
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/23631
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/23804
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/23923
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/31836
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_openpkg
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_trustix
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087
Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902

Scores

EPSS 0.0379
EPSS Percentile 88.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
fetchmail/fetchmail 6.3.5
fetchmail/fetchmail 6.3.6 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
Published Dec 31, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026