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ghsa-q9v7-qrhr-3q9v

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-10-04 03:32

Modified

2025-11-05 00:31

Severity ?

5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

In fetchmail before 6.5.6, the SMTP client can crash when authenticating upon receiving a 334 status code in a malformed context.

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  "modified": "2025-11-05T00:31:29Z",
  "published": "2025-10-04T03:32:59Z",
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CVE-2025-61962 (GCVE-0-2025-61962)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-10-04 00:00

Modified

2025-11-04 21:14

Severity ?

5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-142 - Improper Neutralization of Value Delimiters

Summary

In fetchmail before 6.5.6, the SMTP client can crash when authenticating upon receiving a 334 status code in a malformed context.

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/03/2
	https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2025-01.txt
	https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/commit/4c3cebfa4e659fb778ca2cae0ccb3f69201609a8

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	fetchmail	fetchmail	Version: 5.9.9 ≤

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