CVE-2008-2711

Fetchmail vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

3.0%

EPSS pct

86th

Exploited

No known

fetchmail 6.3.8 and earlier, when running in -v -v (aka verbose) mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and persistent mail failure) via a malformed mail message with long headers, which triggers an erroneous dereference when using vsnprintf to format log messages.

Affected vendor

Fetchmail

Affected product

Fetchmail

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2008-06-16

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

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