Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-5974: Fetchmail: Denial of Service and password disclosure
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
12/31/2006
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
10/30/2017
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.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-mail-fetchmail
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