CVE-2006-5974 (GCVE-0-2006-5974)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-01-09 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:12
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
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.
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