fkie_cve-2006-5974
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2006-12-31 05:00
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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 pointer dereference when calling the (1) ferror or (2) fflush functions.
References
Impacted products
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