Denial of Service Vulnerability in Fetchmail by Fetchmail Developers
CVE-2011-1947

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: Fetchmail
Status: Fetchmail
Vendor: CVE Published:; 2 June 2011

What is CVE-2011-1947?

Fetchmail versions 5.9.9 through 6.3.19 are vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to insufficient management of wait times following STARTTLS or STLS requests. This vulnerability permits remote servers to exploit the application by acknowledging encryption requests without sending further packets, resulting in the application hanging and becoming unresponsive.

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