CVE-2006-0321

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-01-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

fetchmail 6.3.0 and other versions before 6.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted e-mail messages that cause a free of an invalid pointer when fetchmail bounces the message to the originator or local postmaster.

Affected products

fetchmail: 6.3.0, 6.3.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348747
http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=8784
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18571
http://secunia.com/advisories/18895
http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015527
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.443499
http://www.osvdb.org/22691
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/422936/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16365

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