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Vulnerability details: VCID-n8bj-w6ng-aaad
Vulnerability ID VCID-n8bj-w6ng-aaad
Aliases CVE-2006-5974
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.0
Risk 3.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
System Score Found at
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cvssv2 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5974
Reference id Reference type URL
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt
http://osvdb.org/31836
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2006-5974.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2006-5974
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5974
http://secunia.com/advisories/23631
http://secunia.com/advisories/23804
http://secunia.com/advisories/23838
http://secunia.com/advisories/23923
http://secunia.com/advisories/24151
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017479
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456114/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:6.3.6:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2006-5974 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5974
GLSA-200701-13 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200701-13
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5974
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.81723
EPSS Score 0.04615
Published At March 29, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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