Denial of Service Vulnerability in Fetchmail by Fetchmail Development Team
CVE-2008-2711

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: Fetchmail
Status: Fetchmail
Vendor: CVE Published:; 16 June 2008

What is CVE-2008-2711?

Fetchmail versions up to 6.3.8 are susceptible to a denial of service vulnerability that occurs when the application runs in verbose mode. Attackers can exploit this flaw by sending specially crafted email messages with excessively long headers, which leads to a crash and prolonged mail delivery failures due to erroneous dereferencing during log message formatting. This vulnerability highlights the potential risks of handling malformed input and the importance of validating and sanitizing data within applications.

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