CVE-2005-2335
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.88% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-07-27 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 22:22Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-07-21
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- b2332d40a4888078f7f9cfbcc195810ad895465cc0a822d16d458c74071a8789
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2006-08-01http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
- www.securityfocus.com14349http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14349
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2005:018http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-3101http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101
- www.redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00104.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2005-1171http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1171
- secunia.com21253http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
- www.securityfocus.com19289http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289
- fetchmail.berlios.dehttp://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
- www.osvdb.org18174http://www.osvdb.org/18174
- www.us-cert.govTA06-214Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:1124https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1124
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2005-613http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00088.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:1038https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1038
- developer.berlios.dehttp://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=6617
- www.securityfocus.com20060801 DMA[2006-0801a] - 'Apple OSX fetchmail buffer overflow'http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441856/100/200/threaded
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:8833https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8833
- www.debian.orgDSA-774http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-774
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:640http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-640.html
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2005-614http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00089.html
- www.securityfocus.com20060526 rPSA-2006-0084-1 fetchmailhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435197/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com16176http://secunia.com/advisories/16176
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.2.5-16
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.2.5-16
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.2.5-16
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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