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CVE-2006-5974

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2006-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Fetchmail Fetchmail

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References