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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-06-16T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:14:14.639Z

Reserved: 2008-06-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-2711

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-06-16T21:41:00.000

Modified: 2021-08-09T21:15:07.400

Link: CVE-2008-2711

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-2711 - Bugzilla