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CVE-2002-1174

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2002-10-11 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Fetchmail Fetchmail

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References