CVE-2006-5974
fetchmail 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, when refusing a message delivered via the mda option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL
02 Description
fetchmail 6.3.5 and 6.3.6 before 6.3.6-rc4, when refusing a message delivered via the mda option, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL
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
- 4.01% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.2% 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
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
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
- 2007-01-09 00:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 20:12Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-11-20
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- a203a8ff6e5ddce557c048364dc93179d5ff9ec8302bb9e2ece012883659803e
05 Affected products
06 References
- securitytracker.com1017479http://securitytracker.com/id?1017479
- slackware.comSSA:2007-024-01http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995
- fetchmail.berlios.dehttp://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt
- secunia.com23838http://secunia.com/advisories/23838
- secunia.com24151http://secunia.com/advisories/24151
- www.securityfocus.com20070105 fetchmail security announcement 2006-03 (CVE-2006-5974)http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456114/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com23631http://secunia.com/advisories/23631
- secunia.com23804http://secunia.com/advisories/23804
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-0088http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2007:004http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
- fedoranews.orgFEDORA-2007-041http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429
- secunia.com23923http://secunia.com/advisories/23923
- osvdb.org31836http://osvdb.org/31836
- www.openpkg.comOpenPKG-SA-2007.004http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html
- www.trustix.org2007-0007http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200701-13http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-0087http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087
- www.securityfocus.com21902http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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