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Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package fetchmail  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-FETCHMAIL-673952
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed16 Jun 2008
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Introduced: 16 Jun 2008

CVE-2008-2711  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream fetchmail package and not the fetchmail package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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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