CVE-2005-4348
fetchmail before 6.3.1 and before 6.2.5.5, when configured for multidrop mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by sending messages without headers from
02 Description
fetchmail before 6.3.1 and before 6.2.5.5, when configured for multidrop mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by sending messages without headers from
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
- 3.64% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.0% 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
- Low. 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
- 2005-12-21 00:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 23:38Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-12-19
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ce6018c0e7b599867c3e2942d372ef6fcc9fd29b8027a2a545c1e1318b2635c3
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com18266http://secunia.com/advisories/18266
- secunia.com18172http://secunia.com/advisories/18172
- secunia.com18231http://secunia.com/advisories/18231
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-3101http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101
- www.securityfocus.com20051221 fetchmail security announcement fetchmail-SA-2005-03 (CVE-2005-4348)http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420098/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com21253http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
- securitytracker.com1015383http://securitytracker.com/id?1015383
- slackware.comSSA:2006-045-01http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.443499
- secunia.com17891http://secunia.com/advisories/17891
- www.securityfocus.com19289http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289
- www.trustix.org2006-0002http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0002/
- secunia.com18463http://secunia.com/advisories/18463
- secunia.com24284http://secunia.com/advisories/24284
- secunia.com24007http://secunia.com/advisories/24007
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:9659https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9659
- www.securityfocus.com15987http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15987
- bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343836
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comfetchmail-null-pointer-dos(23713)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23713
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2007:004http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-233-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/233-1/
- www.osvdb.org21906http://www.osvdb.org/21906
- www.vupen.comADV-2005-2996http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2996
- wwwnew.mandriva.comMDKSA-2005:236http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:236
- www.securityfocus.com20060526 rPSA-2006-0084-1 fetchmailhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435197/100/0/threaded
- patches.sgi.com20070201-01-Pftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2007:0018http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0018.html
- secunia.com18895http://secunia.com/advisories/18895
- www.debian.orgDSA-939http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-939
- secunia.com18433http://secunia.com/advisories/18433
- fetchmail.berlios.dehttp://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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