CVE-2007-4565
sink.c in fetchmail before 6.3.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) by refusing certain warning messages that are sent over SMTP.
02 Description
sink.c in fetchmail before 6.3.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) by refusing certain warning messages that are sent over SMTP.
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
- 1.97% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 80.2% 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
- 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
- 2007-08-28 01:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 15:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-08-27
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 082b3d371afa50afde50c13658c864231b8616041e43f5f0f26637f6c1cdcae8
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com33937http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
- securityreason.com3074http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3074
- fetchmail.berlios.dehttp://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt
- mknod.orghttp://mknod.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/BRANCH_6-3/fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
- www.securitytracker.com1018627http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018627
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2009-02-12http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
- www.securityfocus.com20080617 fetchmail security announcement fetchmail-SA-2007-02 (CVE-2007-4565)http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493388/100/0/threaded
- www.trustix.org2007-0028http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0028/
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10528https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10528
- www.securityfocus.com25495http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25495
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-3032http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3032
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-0422http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
- www.securityfocus.com20070907 FLEA-2007-0053-1 fetchmailhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478798/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com27399http://secunia.com/advisories/27399
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comfetchmail-warning-dos(36385)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36385
- www.debian.orgDSA-1377http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1377
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2007:179http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:179
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1690
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-520-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-520-1
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2007:022http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html
- osvdb.org45833http://osvdb.org/45833
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.8-8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.8-8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- fetchmail Fixed in 6.3.8-8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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