CVE-2008-2711

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

fetchmail: through 6.3.8; 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4, 4.5.5, 4.5.6 (+107)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30742
http://secunia.com/advisories/30895
http://secunia.com/advisories/31262
http://secunia.com/advisories/31287
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.495740
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0235
http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:117
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/13/1

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