CVE-2008-2711
EPSS 3.3%Published: 6/16/2008Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2711
Description
fetchmail 6.3.8 and earlier, when running in -v -v (aka verbose) mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and persistent mail failure) via a malformed mail message with long headers, which triggers an erroneous dereference when using vsnprintf to format log messages.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/fetchmailfrom 0, < 6.3.9~rc2-1