CVE-2002-1174

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-10-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflows in Fetchmail 6.0.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) long headers that are not properly processed by the readheaders function, or (2) via long Received: headers, which are not properly parsed by the parse_received function.

Affected products

fetchmail: through 6.0.0; 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.6 (+72)

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000531
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103340148625187&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-215.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-171
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10203.php
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-063.php
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/other_advisory-2402.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5825
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5827
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000531
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103340148625187&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-215.html

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