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Buffer overflow in the POP3 client in Fetchmail before 6...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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 advisory accidentally used the wrong CVE identifier for the Fetchmail issue. This is the correct identifier.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 27, 2005
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

4.499%
(93rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2005-2335

GHSA ID

GHSA-64xp-j337-hw4c

Source code

No known source code

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