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.
Published: 2002-10-01
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 4.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2002-1158 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.
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Fetchmail Fetchmail
Redhat Enterprise Linux Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:19:27.643Z

Reserved: 2002-09-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-1174

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-10-11T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-1174

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2002-09-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2002-1174 - Bugzilla

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