CVE-2001-1009

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Fetchmail (aka fetchmail-ssl) before 5.8.17 allows a remote malicious (1) IMAP server or (2) POP/POP3 server to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly gain privileges via a negative index number as part of a response to a LIST request.

Fetchmail (aka fetchmail-ssl) before 5.8.17 allows a remote malicious (1) IMAP server or (2) POP/POP3 server to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly gain privileges via a negative index number as part of a response to a LIST request.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Fetchmail

First reported 23 years ago

2001-08-31 04:00:00

Last updated 14 years ago

2011-02-16 05:00:00

Affected Software

Fetchmail 4.5.1

4.5.1

Fetchmail 4.5.2

4.5.2

Fetchmail 4.5.3

4.5.3

Fetchmail 4.5.4

4.5.4

Fetchmail 4.5.5

4.5.5

Fetchmail 4.5.6

4.5.6

Fetchmail 4.5.7

4.5.7

Fetchmail 4.5.8

4.5.8

Fetchmail 4.6.0

4.6.0

Fetchmail 4.6.1

4.6.1

Fetchmail 4.6.2

4.6.2

Fetchmail 4.6.3

4.6.3

Fetchmail 4.6.4

4.6.4

Fetchmail 4.6.5

4.6.5

Fetchmail 4.6.6

4.6.6

Fetchmail 4.6.7

4.6.7

Fetchmail 4.6.8

4.6.8

Fetchmail 4.6.9

4.6.9

Fetchmail 4.7.0

4.7.0

Fetchmail 4.7.1

4.7.1

Fetchmail 4.7.2

4.7.2

Fetchmail 4.7.3

4.7.3

Fetchmail 4.7.4

4.7.4

Fetchmail 4.7.5

4.7.5

Fetchmail 4.7.6

4.7.6

Fetchmail 4.7.7

4.7.7

Fetchmail 5.0.0

5.0.0

Fetchmail 5.0.1

5.0.1

Fetchmail 5.0.2

5.0.2

Fetchmail 5.0.3

5.0.3

Fetchmail 5.0.4

5.0.4

Fetchmail 5.0.5

5.0.5

Fetchmail 5.0.6

5.0.6

Fetchmail 5.0.7

5.0.7

Fetchmail 5.0.8

5.0.8

Fetchmail 5.1.0

5.1.0

Fetchmail 5.1.4

5.1.4

Fetchmail 5.2.0

5.2.0

Fetchmail 5.2.1

5.2.1

Fetchmail 5.2.3

5.2.3

Fetchmail 5.2.4

5.2.4

Fetchmail 5.2.7

5.2.7

Fetchmail 5.2.8

5.2.8

Fetchmail 5.3.0

5.3.0

Fetchmail 5.3.1

5.3.1

Fetchmail 5.3.3

5.3.3

Fetchmail 5.3.8

5.3.8

Fetchmail 5.4.0

5.4.0

Fetchmail 5.4.3

5.4.3

Fetchmail 5.4.4

5.4.4

Fetchmail 5.4.5

5.4.5

Fetchmail 5.5.0

5.5.0

Fetchmail 5.5.2

5.5.2

Fetchmail 5.5.3

5.5.3

Fetchmail 5.5.5

5.5.5

Fetchmail 5.5.6

5.5.6

Fetchmail 5.6.0

5.6.0

Fetchmail 5.7.0

5.7.0

Fetchmail 5.7.2

5.7.2

Fetchmail 5.7.4

5.7.4

Fetchmail 5.8

5.8

Fetchmail 5.8.1

5.8.1

Fetchmail 5.8.2

5.8.2

Fetchmail 5.8.3

5.8.3

Fetchmail 5.8.4

5.8.4

Fetchmail 5.8.5

5.8.5

Fetchmail 5.8.6

5.8.6

Fetchmail 5.8.11

5.8.11

Fetchmail 5.8.13

5.8.13

Fetchmail 5.9.0

5.9.0

References

20010809 Fetchmail security advisory

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

CLA-2001:419

DSA-071

fetchmail-signed-integer-index(6965)

MDKSA-2001:072

ESA-20010816-01

Patch, Vendor Advisory

SuSE-SA:2001:026

RHSA-2001:103

Patch, Vendor Advisory

3164

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

3166

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

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