CVE-2002-1174
EPSS 4.3%fetchmail - buffer overflows
Published: 10/11/2002Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Buffer overflows in Fetchmail 6.0.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) long headers that are not properly processed by the readheaders function, or (2) via long Received: headers, which are not properly parsed by the parse_received function.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/fetchmailfrom 0, < 6.1.0-1
- Debian/fetchmailfrom 0, < 5.9.11-6.1
- Debian/fetchmail-sslfrom 0, < 5.9.11-6.1