CVE-2006-5974
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 4.0%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 4.0% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5957)
- Published
- December 31, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5957 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fetchmail / fetchmail
- fetchmail / fetchmail
- fetchmail / fetchmail
- fetchmail / fetchmail
References
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2429
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt
- http://osvdb.org/31836
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23631(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23804(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23838(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23923(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24151(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-13.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017479
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.517995
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
- http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.004.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456114/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21902(Patch)
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0087
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0088
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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