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CVE-2012-3482

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-12-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Fetchmail 5.0.8 through 6.3.21, when using NTLM authentication in debug mode, allows remote NTLM servers to (1) cause a denial of service (crash and delayed delivery of inbound mail) via a crafted NTLM response that triggers an out-of-bounds read in the base64 decoder, or (2) obtain sensitive information from memory via an NTLM Type 2 message with a crafted Target Name structure, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

• fetchmail: 5.0.8, 5.1.0, 5.1.4, 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.3 (+87)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/088836.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/088871.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/230
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/232
• http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2012-02.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54987
• https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_fetchmail
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/088836.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/088871.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/230
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/232
• http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2012-02.txt

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