CVE-2008-2711

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-06-16
Impact:	Low	What is this?

Description

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.

See more information about CVE-2008-2711 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (fetchmail)	ELSA-2009-1427	2009-09-09
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (fetchmail)	ELSA-2009-1427	2009-09-09
Oracle Linux version 5 (fetchmail)	ELSA-2009-1427	2009-09-09