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CVE-2006-5974
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…
High7.8EPSS 4.0%
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- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.0% · top 9.4% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (18)
- 1017479 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- SSA:2007-024-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 23838 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 24151 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070105 fetchmail security announcement 2006-03 (CVE-2006-5974) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 23631 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23804 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0088 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2007:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2007-041 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 23923 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31836 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- OpenPKG-SA-2007.004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENPKGx_transferred
- 2007-0007 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- GLSA-200701-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0087 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 21902 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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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