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>> Fetchmail Messages Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Fetchmail Messages Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2996
CVE ID : CVE-2005-4348
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-12-19
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A vulnerability has been identified in Fetchmail, which may be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to a null pointer dereference error when processing messages without headers, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application (configured for multidrop mode) via a malicious upstream mail server.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Daniel Drake and Sunil Shetye
ChangeLog
2005-12-19 : Initial release
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