CVE-2005-2335

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the POP3 client in Fetchmail before 6.2.5.2 allows remote POP3 servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via long UIDL responses. NOTE: a typo in an advisory accidentally used the wrong CVE identifier for the Fetchmail issue. This is the correct identifier.

Affected products

fetchmail: through 6.2.5.1; 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.6 (+82)

References

http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=6617
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/16176
http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-774
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
http://www.osvdb.org/18174
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00088.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00089.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00104.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-640.html

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