CVE-2008-2711
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 3.0%EU EUVD
fetchmail 6.3.8 and earlier, when running in -v -v (aka verbose) mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and persistent mail failure) via a malformed mail message with long headers, which triggers an erroneous dereference when using vsnprintf to format log messages.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 3.0% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2705)
- Published
- June 16, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2705 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fetchmail / fetchmail
- fetchmail / fetchmail
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References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30742(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30895(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31262(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31287(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33937(Vendor Advisory)
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.495740
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0235
- http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:117
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/13/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/09/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493391/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494865/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29705
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020298
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1860/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354291
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43121
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2623
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10950
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01091.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01095.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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