A vulnerability has been identified in Fetchmail, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error caused by the use of an invalid pointer when attempting to free memory after a message is bounced to the originator or to the postmaster, which may be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Nathaniel W. Turner
ChangeLog
2006-01-23 : Initial release
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