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CVE-2006-0321
fetchmail 6.3.0 and other versions before 6.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted e-mail messages…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
fetchmail 6.3.0 and other versions before 6.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted e-mail messages that cause a free of an invalid pointer when fetchmail bounces the message to the originator or local postmaster.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (17)
- APPLE-SA-2006-08-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 16365 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=8784 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- fetchmail-message-bounce-dos(24265) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20060122 fetchmail security announcement fetchmail-SA-2006-01 (CVE-2006-0321) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3101 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 21253 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 18571 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SSA:2006-045-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0300 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 19289 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- TA06-214A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348747 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 22691 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1015527 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 18895 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2006-0321)Record last updated .