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USN-520-1: fetchmail vulnerabilities

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USN-520-1: fetchmail vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/27/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

sink.c in fetchmail before 6.3.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) by refusing certain warning messages that are sent over SMTP.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-fetchmail

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