Fetchmail (aka fetchmail-ssl) before 5.8.17 allows a remote malicious (1) IMAP server or (2) POP/POP3 server to overwrite arbitrary memory…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.5% · top 6.2% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (10)

• SuSE-SA:2001:026 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• DSA-071 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• RHSA-2001:103 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 3166 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 20010809 Fetchmail security advisory (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• CLA-2001:419 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
• MDKSA-2001:072 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
• ESA-20010816-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_ENGARDEx_transferred
• 3164 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• fetchmail-signed-integer-index(6965) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 8 Aug 2024, 04:37 UTC.