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CVE-2008-2711

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2008-06-16 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Fetchmail Fetchmail

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References